Pity the Beast by Robin McLean review – a work of crazy brilliance @sannewman @guardian https://t.co/rhAp4rOjr2

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) January 2, 2022

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A dog’s inner life: what a robot pet taught me about consciousness. Meghan O'Gieblyn @guardian https://t.co/3lw2i9UKPP

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 21, 2021

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December 1, 2019. Quadra Island. The end of The Before Time. pic.twitter.com/mfqVYkohVK

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 1, 2021

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Saint Agnes’s Lament : Shuggie Bain @xlorentzen @LRB
https://t.co/hcZpcp0lQ7

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) November 25, 2021

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— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) November 15, 2021

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In the Afterword of the 1999 edition of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard writes, “Inexplicably, this difficult book has often strayed into boarding-school and high-school curricula as well as required college courses… Consequently, I suspect, many educated adult who would have enjoyed it, or at least understood it, never opened it—why read a book your kid is toting? And consequently a generation of youth has grown up cursing my name…"

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The Abundance by Annie Dillard review – a world of wonder, acutely observed @gavinfranc @guardian https://t.co/He67KPYaYA

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) July 10, 2021

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After a summer in Northern Ontario, Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth wrote an earworm of a tune dedicated to the pesky blackfly. Hear him sing it alongside the McGarrigle sisters in Christopher Hinton's animated classic, Blackfly.

provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) June 24, 2021

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.@globeandmail https://t.co/hxOZ1NIFLv pic.twitter.com/Y6PKU3ubI6

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) June 3, 2021

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📷 Kiku Hawkes.

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‘I had to find them’: kidnapped filmmaker @mellissafung on her mission to find the Boko Haram girls @leahmclaren @guardian https://t.co/m7qPHReHOX

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) May 23, 2021

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"The second half of this book is shaggy, shaggy, shaggy. If it’s not a total breakdown, it’s something close."

Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ @DwightGarner @nytimesbooks https://t.co/u5rC34kq2x

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) May 17, 2021

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The Street, Caroline Leaf, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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