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    A Year in Reading: John Lee Clark

    by John Lee Clark Dec 17, 2024 2 minutes

    When I moved to Montreal last August to begin doctoral studies, I gave myself a personal assignment to sift through Canadian literature. Elizabeth Hay’s 2006 novel Late Nights on Air stopped me, just like how a voice on the radio stops a character named Gwen:

    “His relaxed, gravelly, conversational voice was so familiar that

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