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That's Not Funny! ‘Tiny anarchic guerrillas’ PAGE 11 $6.50 Vol. 26, No. 5 June 2018 PASHA MALLA That’s Not Funny! CanLit’s humour deficit PLUS LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON & DIONNE BRAND The Art of Unsettling MARTIN PATRIQUIN Two Mulroneys AND INTRODUCING Columnist Andy Lamey on sex, power, and #MeToo Publications Mail Agreement #40032362. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. PO Box 8, Station K, Toronto, ON M4P 2G1 Literary Review of Canada 100 King Street West, Suite 2575 P.O. 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Acalled Madras is of reading Oscar Wilde he and fellow editor Jeet Heer (now at The New A search for a new publisher is in full swing, and we plays aloud with my mother. We read under Republic) worked with the editor in chief, Patrice will approach the next phase with a vision to grow fluorescent tube light in a house surrounded on Dutil, also the LRC’s founder. the LRC, and the expertise to achieve it. three sides by sand and the Bay of Bengal, from a The magazine couldn’t afford an office, so they On the editorial side, tumult has not kept us hardbound volume that now sits on her bookcase met at a coffee shop, and Lamey edited at his from charging ahead with a reinvigoration of the in Toronto. I knew nothing of Wilde’s tribulations mother’s apartment on an ancient Mac that used magazine. Articles published in the LRC won a gold then, or even that he was gay. I had only words on floppy disks. 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A staff and freelance designer for years later, when I made a documentary for CBC Frontier Justice); and settled into a job as a professor Toronto Life, The Walrus, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Radio’s The Sunday Edition about my mother’s of philosophy at the University of California at San the National Music Centre in Calgary, et al., Rachel mother—in brief: married at ten, a mother at fif- Diego.
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