Getting Gallant

I laughed, but I was the only one to do so. No one else seemed to know that this was a bit of Canadian gallows humor.

Over at Hazlitt, Michelle Dean goes to a tribute to (the still living) Mavis Gallant at KGB bar, helpfully explicating some references in Gallant’s stories that may be obscure to Americans and correcting Wallace Shawn’s pronunciation of “Raymond.”