Alistair Macleod

[Jackie]

I'd like to write short stories like Alistair Macleod. I'm reading The Lost Salt Gift of Blood slowly, because I keep rereading parts.

Jackie

[David]

Is he the Newfoundland writer, Jackie? If so, I read a collection of his years ago, and I remember being very impressed.

Cheers

David

[Jackie]

Hi David,

From Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He has such a strong voice. I think he takes the care over his writing that poets do. Even in his novel, No Great Mischief, you don't find extraneous sentences.

I think the stories in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are included in a later collection, Island.

Jackie

[Antcliff]

A new name to me, Jackie. Thank you.

Well, the author is new. The name is far from new.

[Jackie]

I was so sorry to read of this great author's passing over the weekend.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/acc ... -1.1783670

[Antcliff]

I will definitely try some of the short stories, Jackie.


Seth