An Interview with Elizabeth McKenzie on “Dog of the North” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Elizabeth McKenzie on “Dog of the North” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Elizabeth McKenzie’s rollicking new novel Dog of the North, a woman named Penny is contacted by a man named Burt Lampey, who claims to be her grandmother Dr. Pincer’s accountant. When Burt asks Penny to help him evacuate her grandmother from her home in Santa Barbara, Penny agrees to— she’s recently suffered a … Read more

Enchanted Retellings in Kelly Link’s “White Cat, Black Dog” – Chicago Review of Books

Enchanted Retellings in Kelly Link’s “White Cat, Black Dog” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Kelly Link’s fiction always brings to my mind the old-timey phrase “spinning a yarn.” Although I’ve learned this idiom has nautical origins, for me, it evokes spindles, spinning wheels, and the realm of folktales. And while Link tends to reinvent her own style so that no two stories are alike, all of them can … Read more