{"id":3931,"date":"2009-05-14T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:07:59","slug":"toront0-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/toront0-fer","title":{"rendered":"Toront0-fer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of our mini-vacation to Toronto, this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Margaret Atwood<\/a>! She was born in Ottawa, but it looks like her formative years were spent in Toronto and I’ve never read a word she’s written!<\/p>\n

And I have<\/em> read some work by Robertson Davies<\/a> (I think just Fifth Business<\/a>\"\"; I really oughtta read that whole Deptford trilogy<\/a>\"\" sometime), so he’s out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of our mini-vacation to Toronto, this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Margaret Atwood! She was born in Ottawa, but it looks like her formative years were spent in Toronto and I’ve never read a word she’s written! And I have read some work by Robertson Davies (I think just Fifth Business; … <\/p>\n

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