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City to join readings of UWindsor grad’s book

A book by a UWindsor graduate has been selected as the subject of a city-wide read-a-thon next week.

Windsor Reads will feature public readings of Alexander MacLeod’s bestselling first book of short stories, Light Lifting, short-listed for both the Booker and the Giller Prizes.

“It’s a celebration of Windsor’s literary talent and the written word,” says Sarah Jarvis, a volunteer with Literary Arts Windsor. “We’re bringing book readings to where Windsor’s citizens live, work, study -- and even heal.”

English student learns value of native oral traditions

Like most North American children, Sandra Stephens would have grown up with classic fables such as The Tortoise and the Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

How the Crow Became Black was a new one on her. A fourth-year English major with a minor in anthropology, Stephens came across two variations of the tale this summer while she was researching First Nations oral traditions on the Wasauksing Ojibwe reserve near Parry Sound, Ontario.

Trivia quiz a reading of resident writer

Award-winning journalist, poet, playwright, historian, photographer and editor Marty Gervais holds the position of resident writing professional in the English department.

Today’s quiz gives DailyNews readers a chance to learn a little more about him, as well as the opportunity to win a couple of his most recent books, courtesy of the University Bookstore—the 30th anniversary edition of The Rumrunners, and a copy of his memoir, Afternoons with the Devil.