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  1. Welcome To the 2 different Styles Podcast! New Episodes Every Thursday! Skits On Mondays!In today's episode Alex and Brendan talk about NFL Week 1, The walki...

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    • 2 Different Styles - Podcast and Sketch Comedy
  2. How lucky I was to be able to chat with Alex Pugsley about his collection of stories, Shimmer. We talked about dialogue, emotions, character development, sto...

  3. 3 days ago · Pelosi joins "The View" to discuss being a player in key moments in American politics and why she dedicated her book The Art of Power to her husband, Paul af...

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    • A Writing Credo
    • Writing About Childhood
    • Halifax Is Home

    "I think that all writing is in some ways autobiographical. Alice Munro, when she was writing Lives of Girls and Women, she has this neat little disclaimer note off the top, which is, 'This book is autobiographical in form but not in fact. My family and friends did not serve as models for the characters in this book.' "I'm not quoting it verbatim b...

    "I began writing the book when I was the age that the narrator is at the end. I started writing it in my 20s. I wanted to write an honest response to the circumstances of my childhood. When you're a kid, you have a lot more ideas about your life than you have ways of expressing them. I was not a very articulate child and I couldn't express myself. ...

    "Writing about Halifax was actually a lot of fun for me because in a lot of ways, although Nova Scotia has a very rich tradition of music and literature, a lot of it is from Cape Breton. Halifax has not been written about that often. "In a lot of ways, it was wide open territory. I was happy to write about my childhood because I knew it so well. I ...

  4. It tells the story of Aubrey McKee as he leaves the east coast for a new life in Toronto. Pugsley was in the studio for our Tuesday afternoon book club.

  5. Accept your limits and know peace. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Yes but be sincere about certain things you don't have answers to. 1 min. 1 Episode.

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  7. Four years ago, the writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley published Aubrey McKee, the first of five planned autobiographical novels. Aubrey narrates his life in Halifax between 1963 and 1985. The history of the “saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters” confronts him as he passes “through ...

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