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Tag: Louise Penny

  • Louise Penny on CBC’s Bookends, and the World’s Longest Undefended Border

    Much of my knowledge of Canadian literature has been gleaned from CBC radio. The voices of Eleanor Wachtel and Shelagh Rogers are instantly recognizable to me. And in recent years, Louise Penny’s wonderfully throaty speaking voice has become just as familiar. I missed her early years as a CBC broadcaster, but it’s a great pleasure…

  • Louise Penny’s The Black Wolf

    As The Black Wolf opens, Clara is struggling with the completion of her latest art project, a series entitled Just before something happens, which anticipates one of the key themes of Penny’s latest novel: how to portray the time that precedes a dramatic, or traumatic, event? How, even, to know if one is in the…

  • Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf

    I’m re-reading Penny’s most recent novel, in anticipation of next fall’s companion volume, The Black Wolf. On Instagram this morning, Penny shared the advance copy (very advance: publication is still six months out). And tickets are now on sale for fall book events in Toronto and Vancouver; the Ottawa book launch at the National Arts…