Magomania has assembled a group of experts from over 300 top Canadian magazines, and they’re just waiting to answer your questions. Judging from what they’ve posted on the site, so far the response has been underwhelming.

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The media furor over the Oprah Book Club’s selection and eventual excommunication of Jonathan Franzen, from the author’s perspective. Beginning the next night, in Chicago, I’ll encounter two kinds of readers in signing lines and in interviews. One kind will say to me, essentially, “I like your book and I think it’s wonderful that Oprah […]

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A New York Review of Books assessment of Joan Didion’s collection of political pieces… An instinctive populist in her politics — she voted for Barry Goldwater and credits Jesse Jackson and her sometime house guest Jerry Brown with having run the only campaigns relevant to real issues or real people in 1992—Didion visits Amer-ican politics […]

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