Lorna Crozier is a Governor General’s Award-winning poet whose latest published collection is Apocrypha of Light (1992). She has also edited two non-fiction anthologies, Desire in Seven Voices and Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, and she teaches at the University of Victoria. “Spit,” published in Geist 48, is part of a collection of personal essays, a work-in-progress.
In 1929 Morley Callaghan and his wife Loretta went to Paris, where they hung out in cafés with writers and artists and rubberneckers and lounge lizards, spent a couple of hilarious evenings with James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle, and eventually Callaghan knocked Hemingway down in the sparring match that entered literary history (Scott Fitzgerald was the timekeeper who forgot to keep time), and which is the central event in Morley Callaghan’s memoir That Summer in Paris (Exile Editions). Callaghan is a good writer and this is a book one wants to read in a single sitting.
