Howard Norman

Jul 12, 2024 | lithub.com | Howard Norman

They are all in their graves now, but late in the winter of 1979, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I recorded conversations with six women who, in 1938, shortly before Canada’s entry into WWII, arrived on three different steamers from Europe, ostensibly to be war brides. Their matrimonial contracts were signed on the basis of a photograph of their prospective husband or a letter from their prospective husband. Their Atlantic passage was paid for in advance. All but two were of Dutch ancestry.

Jul 4, 2024 | zip06.com | Howard Norman

Come to the Window by Howard Norman In 1918 Nova Scotia in 1918, during World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic, Elizabeth Frame murders her husband on their wedding night and puts the revolver into the blowhole of a beached whale. The story is told through the diaries of a newspaper reporter who is covering the story. His relationship with his wife plays a role in the story as well, as they deal with difficult situations. This is a different but most interesting story.

Apr 2, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Howard Norman |Ruby Todd |Joseph Kanon |Alejandro Nodarse

Howard Norman. Norton, $27.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-324-07633-9Norman follows up The Ghost Clause with a stunning literary mystery set in 1918 Nova Scotia. On the same night a whale washes ashore in the small town of Parrsboro, bigamist Elizabeth Frame murders her second husband in their bed. Reporter Toby Havenshaw is assigned to cover the trial, but he’s more focused on reuniting with his wife, Amelia, a surgeon who’s just returned from the frontlines of WWI.

Mar 20, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Howard Norman

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Mar 20, 2024 | lithub.com | Howard Norman |Michael Ondaatje

Recently I had a few conversations with Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in 25 years. With capacious introspection as well as intimate documentary recall, the poems and prose in A Year of Last Things, make for a symphonic treatise on memory itself. And the way in which it reconstitutes a whole life is full of fearless joy and equally fearless melancholy. “The real question I had,” Michael said, “was could I write poems anymore? I began writing poems around age eighteen.