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March 20, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England, Italy, USA

The Venetians have gotten their city back. Certainly not the way they wanted to get it back, not as the…

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

January 18, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England

Everyone wants to be liked, Americans, I think, more than most people, and English husbands of American wives want their…

And Now For Something Completely Different

And Now For Something Completely Different

April 3, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Canada

Take heart, readers! This post will not be yet another cry of dismay over the troubling ascendancy of Donald Trump….

De Ja Vu All Over Again

De Ja Vu All Over Again

March 9, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, USA

There it was again. That feeling. The feeling that I hadn’t felt in a long time, but that I still…

O Canada

O Canada

November 2, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in Canada

A flash of light rent the October sky, lasted a few short moments, and then vanished as quickly as it…

Fruits of the Earth

Fruits of the Earth

July 15, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, Finland

Nadine Gordimer died today, the great South African writer, though I had actually sat down to write about another great…

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All countries are strange, none stranger than your own.

January 2023
I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.
September 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.
July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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