Alex speaks with Professors Simon Stern (UofT Law/English) and Adam Hammond (UofT English) about the detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle as it relates to their ongoing project, “The Birth of the Modern Detective Story, 1890–1920.” Key topics of discussion include the rise of the modern “inferential attitude,” the role of probability in detectives' reasoning about the crowd, and the “magic” of Sherlock Holmes.

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Alex speaks with Professor Daniel Wright of UofT English about two key popular romances, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her?, in the context of his book, Bad Logic: Reasoning About Desire in the Victorian Novel (2018). Key topics of discussion include the relationship between the realist and romance modes, the tenuous power of language to articulate desire, and popular romance novels’ myriad imagings of the crowd and the public.

You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Farah Ghafoor, winner of the Hart House Literary Contest in the poetry category, speaks about her prize-winning poem, “Self Portrait with Polar Bears,” and her poetry on climate change.

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Vikram Nijhawan, L&L’s writer’s co-op coordinator, discusses metafictionality and the inextricable relation between fact and fantasy in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: Dream Country; then, Alexander Lynch, L&L’s podcast coordinator, examines representations of gender and of empire in James Joyce’s “The Dead.”

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Ryanne Kap, a UofT alumna, speaks with Sabryna on the art of personal poetry.

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Alex introduces our new Dialogues theme, “Pop”—that is, popular literary and para-literary writing—c. 1850–1950. He discusses the main issues and questions we’ll consider; our genre selection; the social, economic, and political contexts of popular writing in this period; and some of our tentative theses.

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On our first Next Generation episode of Season 2, Antonia Facciponte, a creative writing master's student at UofT and the author of To Make a Bridge (Black Moss Press, 2021), speaks on her recent collection and the process of literary creation.

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Matthew Lee, one of L&L’s co-chairs, discusses family and agency in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude; then, Hannah Koschanow, one of our literary contest coordinators, speaks on grief and community in Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter.

You can find the transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

In the first episode of our new season, Emily Hurmizi, one of L&L’s co-chairs, considers embodiment and trauma in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What The Body Remembers; then, Helia Karami, L&L’s community outreach coordinator, speaks on memory and mortality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.

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Endnote Season Two is premiering on Friday, August 13th! Here's a quick overview of what's in store.