The year has ended. We can now officially say hindsight is 2020. After being in a headlong tumble-scramble from August onwards, I had a few days to sit after Christmas and move the bookmarks. I read 128 books and chapbooks over the year, 21 chapbooks and 50 novels among them. 59% were by females, 35% […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Final 10
Happy New Year. Here’s the last 10 I read in 2020. Some of these I mentioned at 49th shelf in November. Some were read since then. Children of Fury by Rashid Darden Dark Nation, Vol III, (Old Gold Soul Press, 2020) This is a fantastic novel that I immediately told a couple friends that they […]
reviews of Water Loves its Bridges
Comments by gillian harding-russell on one of the publications in Series Twenty-four from The Alfred Gustav Press, December 2020 (with more responses to come): In “Water Loves Its Bridges,” Pearl Pirie uses the epistolary haibun to explore her loss and the nature of her relationship with her father, not so much in retrospect as in […]
small machine talks
Posted today: Episode 71 of small machine talks in which Amanda Earl & I chat.
New chapbook: Water Loves its Bridges
I got my advanced author’s copies of Water Loves Its Bridges from The Alfred Gustav Press. It’s in good company with Al Rempel, Connie T Braun and Tom Wayman. You had your chance. It’s too late to subscribe for December, but you can for whoever’s out next July. I have almost dozen author copies left […]