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“As is the case with lives themselves, all memoirs are unique, but this seems especially true of Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary,” said Bruce Gillespie, an…
Reviews: Metro News – Sonja Larsen pens memoir about being a teenage revolutionary – January 12 2016“…For Sonja Larsen, rebellion meant joining a radical left-wing political party and becoming the…
Finalists for 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction http://www.cbc.ca/books/duncan-mccue-rajiv-surendra-sonja-larsen-nominated-for-edna-staebler-award-1.4292391
He pulled out a photograph of a woman. I loved her, he said, I loved her so much. He was very drunk. He told me they’d lived together someplace exotic,…
Since your death our conversations have gotten better. You ask about the birds we have here on the island. Your garden, like your mothers, was filled with bird feeders. You…
When I was 12 my mother told me that I should write the history of the revolution she believed would happen in her lifetime. At sixteen I was sitting in…
Thirty-three years ago today the second American revolution was supposed to begin. I sometimes wonder if it was all an elaborate joke the Old Man (aka Gerald Dodein aka Gino…
As part of my commitment to #writersresist and to celebrate the first anniversary of Red Star Tattoo I am looking to fundraise for social and climate justice causes through readings and…
Here is a picture that a friend sent to me of a book case at the Tommy Douglas library. I’m in some pretty interesting company there, but then again, these feel like…