Unravelling the mysteries of Alejo Carpentier

A poem about a postal code.

It is a Sunday in August. We drive from London, Ontario, to the Pinery Provincial Park in a new green 1964 Mercury Comet.

Geist has discovered that millenials love yogurt and hate doorbells. Thanks, Twitter.

Stephen Osborne on The Hotel Years, a collection of short pieces by Joseph Roth.

This text appeared on the back cover of It’s Never Over by Morley Callaghan, Laurentian Library edition, 1972. (Originally published in 1930.)