Another standout was Johanna Skibsrud’s This Will Be Difficult to Explain. What I love about Skibrud’s writing is her focus on how we think as opposed to what we think – a shift from psychology to cognition that I hadn’t realized could be so deftly articulated and that feels very new to me. via Who’s [...]
Articles & Reviews
Notables share their favourite 2011 books – The Globe and Mail
January 2nd, 2012 | published in Articles & Reviews
On Writing, with Johanna Skibsrud | Open Book: Toronto
November 9th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews, Featured
Johanna talks with Open Book about the value of short fiction, the attraction of song and the important influences found (very) close to home. via On Writing, with Johanna Skibsrud | Open Book: Toronto. Share this:
Author Interview with Johanna Skibsrud – Pickle Me This
October 29th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
Like me, the stories are preoccupied with the relationship between the abstract and concrete, the personal and the collective, the infinite and the everyday. Also, with limitations—both personal and historical. There is a desire to move past them in the stories, but also an awareness of the inevitable adherence, or return, to the limiting structures [...]
Review of This Will Be Difficult To Explain And Other Stories – NOW Magazine
October 20th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
Skibsrud’s keen insights into the human experience offer big-time rewards. via NOW Magazine // International Festival of Authors // This Will Be Difficult To Explain And Other Stories. Share this:
Giller winner fiercely defends her decision to follow up with a series of short stories – NOW Magazine
October 20th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
This Will Be Difficult To Explain And Other Stories is every bit as wise, poetic and probing as The Sentimentalists. Characters find themselves embedded in great – often tragically comic – misunderstandings, grappling to communicate with each other while fighting through the fog of their limited perspectives. via International Festival of Authors // Johanna Skibsrud [...]
Johanna Skibsrud Answers Twelve Questions – 12questions.us
October 19th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews, Featured
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel, The Sentimentalists. Her novel was originally produced by a small press in an edition of a few hundred, and went on to become one of the best-selling Canadian novels of the past year. With the release of her new collection of short [...]
Review of This Will Be Difficult To Explain And Other Stories – The Toronto Star
October 16th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews, Featured
For too long, Munro and Gallant have given us good reason not to bother with short stories written by other people. Johanna Skibsrud is worth bothering about… via Tall tales packaged in short stories – thestar.com. Share this:
Johanna Skibsrud: The writer, the prize, the year after – The Globe and Mail
October 3rd, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
In their economy and complexity, their intimately observed details and crystalline insights into human motives and feelings – not to mention their sheer assuredness – Skibsrud’s stories stand boldly at the door of the Canadian short-fiction pantheon: Alice Munro, prop. If nothing else, they affirm her as a major new voice in Canadian literature. Read [...]
This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud – Pickle Me This
August 28th, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
Skibsrud’s preoccupations become evident throughout this excellent collection – with limits, and how we fixate on them and/or reject them, with where we come from and where we go, with who are parents are and how we fixate on them and/or reject them, with history and the impossibility of fully inhabiting just one single moment. [...]
Fiction Chronicle – Johanna Skibsrud – NYTimes.com
June 21st, 2011 | published in Articles & Reviews
A hypnotic meditation on memory, it reaffirms the potential for storytelling to offer clarity and redemption. via Fiction Chronicle – Novels by Banana Yoshimoto, Marcelo Figueras, Helon Habila and Johanna Skibsrud – NYTimes.com. Share this: