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Howard Norman
“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia
American Howard Norman on Finding His Literary Home in the Canadian Maritimes
By
Howard Norman
| July 12, 2024
Telling Everything All at Once: A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje
Howard Norman Talks to Poet-Cum-Novelist About His First Collection in 25 Years
By
Howard Norman
| March 20, 2024
The Bardo of Widowhood: Considering Kathryn Davis’s Meditations on Grief
Howard Norman Reads
Aurelia, Aurélia
By
Howard Norman
| April 18, 2022
On
New Yorker
Cartoonist Ed Koren’s Sketches for the End Times
Howard Norman Talks to His Friend of Many Years
By
Howard Norman
| December 13, 2021
On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin
Howard Norman Reflects on the Collective Meaning of 416 Letters
By
Howard Norman
| July 24, 2019
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