Virginia Woolf talks fruit

"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

 

September 2010
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Coming Soon

* Fresh Picked - review of a debut work by a Canadian writer, plucked from the tree of a Canadian publisher

* Fruit Basket - reviews of an established Canadian author's works, one bite -- er, book -- after the next

* Cobbler - reviews of an assortment of Canadian works on a theme, a variety of flavours to tempt your tongue

On Titles

A title should, if possible, be like a line of poetry – capable of saying a great deal with hardly any words. The title of a novel should in some way express the whole novel, its themes and even something of its outcome. It should all be there, in a phrase. I don’t pretend my titles are perfect, but I believe they’re the best ones that could have been found.
Margaret Laurence “Living Dangerously .. by Mail” in Heart of a Stranger