From Bryson's Diction for Writers and Editors:
Epidemic. Strictly speaking, only people can suffer an epidemic (the word means "in or among people"). An outbreak of disease among animals is epizootic.
The online home of Kerry Clare, world-famous would-be pickler.
Recently Discovered
- - how to make caramel
- - jessica westhead rumours
- -new heather birrell book(s!) in the works
- - the word "mesmerize" came from a man called mesmer
- - the end of house at pooh corner is really sad
Author Interviews @ Pickle Me This
Emily Perkins
Sharon Butala
Rebecca Rosenblum
Tricia Dower
Jessica Westhead
Terry Griggs
Jennica Harper
Patricia Storms
Amy Jones (forthcoming)
Sheree Fitch (forthcoming)
Sharon Butala
Rebecca Rosenblum
Tricia Dower
Jessica Westhead
Terry Griggs
Jennica Harper
Patricia Storms
Amy Jones (forthcoming)
Sheree Fitch (forthcoming)
My Work in the World
- Essay, Prairie Fire Sharon Butala Special Issue, October 2011 (forthcoming)
-Interview with Julie Wilson at the CBC Book Club, Jan. 2010
- "Georgia Coffee Star", UofT Magazine, Winter 2010
- Book reviews in Quill & Quire
-Review of Libby Creelman's The Darren Effect, Canadian Notes and Queries 76
- Descant Blog Posts '07-'09
- "At least the baby's library is ready", Rona Maynard Guest Post, May 2009
- "What Noise Can Carry" Room Magazine 32.1
- "Real Dirty Laundry", This Magazine Jan/Feb 2009
- reading at Pivot Readings at the Press Club, Weds. January 28, 2009
- "On Literary Blogs", A Passion for Reading" (Panelist). Art Matters Forum, Dec. 2008.
- “On a Picnic” The New Quarterly 108
- "Still Born Friends" Eden Mills Writers Festival Literary Contest (Shortlist)
- "Dancing About Literature” Descant 140
- “The New Peppermint” The New Quarterly 104
- "Slush Puppy" Hart House Review '06
- "A Big Enough Army” Toronto Star 7/30/06
- "The Philosophy of Elephants" Globe & Mail 2/3/05
-Interview with Julie Wilson at the CBC Book Club, Jan. 2010
- "Georgia Coffee Star", UofT Magazine, Winter 2010
- Book reviews in Quill & Quire
-Review of Libby Creelman's The Darren Effect, Canadian Notes and Queries 76
- Descant Blog Posts '07-'09
- "At least the baby's library is ready", Rona Maynard Guest Post, May 2009
- "What Noise Can Carry" Room Magazine 32.1
- "Real Dirty Laundry", This Magazine Jan/Feb 2009
- reading at Pivot Readings at the Press Club, Weds. January 28, 2009
- "On Literary Blogs", A Passion for Reading" (Panelist). Art Matters Forum, Dec. 2008.
- “On a Picnic” The New Quarterly 108
- "Still Born Friends" Eden Mills Writers Festival Literary Contest (Shortlist)
- "Dancing About Literature” Descant 140
- “The New Peppermint” The New Quarterly 104
- "Slush Puppy" Hart House Review '06
- "A Big Enough Army” Toronto Star 7/30/06
- "The Philosophy of Elephants" Globe & Mail 2/3/05
Wish List
- time to read
- Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
Profile
- Kerry
- Kerry reads and writes.
Blog Archive
Contact Me
klclare AT gmail DOT com
"Mail... is always welcome. (On the odd mail-less day the postman knocks and gives me his condolences.)" --Carol Shields, from Random Illuminations
"Mail... is always welcome. (On the odd mail-less day the postman knocks and gives me his condolences.)" --Carol Shields, from Random Illuminations
Friends and Places
- a certain bent appeal
- art matters
- ask moxie
- baby got books
- behind the stove
- booklust
- bookninja
- broadsides
- cbc.arts
- constant homecoming
- create me this
- crooked house
- cw@uoft
- descant blog
- dovegreyreader
- free range reading
- globe and mail books
- guardian books
- indextrious reader
- india knight
- inklings
- jezebel books
- kate's book blog
- kirbc
- largehearted boy
- laura conchelos
- literary type
- lucky beans
- making it lovely
- maud newton
- meli-mello
- miffy
- natalie bay
- now doing
- obscure canlit mama
- phd in parenting
- puddle press
- quill blog
- room
- rose coloured
- roughing it in the books
- sam lamb
- thai elephants
- that shakespeherian rag
- the new quarterly
- the star
- thirsty (a biblioasis miscellany)
- tragicrighthip
Writers I Like
- ami mckay
- annie dillard
- barbara pym
- camilla gibb
- carol shields
- donna tartt
- elizabeth hay
- genevieve cote
- grace paley
- heather mallick
- hilary mantel
- jennica harper
- jennifer weiner
- jessica westhead
- joan didion
- karen connelly
- kate atkinson
- kate christensen
- katrina onstad
- laura lippman
- laurel snyder
- lauren groff
- laurie colwin
- lionel shriver
- margaret atwood
- margaret drabble
- mem fox
- penelope lively
- rachel power
- rona maynard
- sharon butala
- sheree fitch
- sue townsend
- virginia woolf
