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‘Journal of the Plague Year 1951,’ declared the title of the first Burgess notebook I transcribed as a new Archive Volunteer for the Foundation. Meanwhile, its last page — flipped upside-down and used as a second starting point for the diarist, so that you can read the notebook from both ends — bore another ominous title: ‘Down…
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For an underprivileged, overanxious teenager growing up in the car-theft capital of North America—aka Surrey—music was the sweetest escape. While getting ready for school, I blasted David Bowie, the Libertines, and the Smiths, stabbing pins through my clothes and squeezing into leather in juvenile imitation of the male rock stars I admired. I felt a…
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Romanian-born, Vancouver-bred Stefana Fratila is only 23 years old and probably more accomplished than you. She is a folk-pop musician turned electronic producer, a political-science student working toward her master’s degree, and a feminist artist with a mind as uniquely bright as her red lipstick and matching ladybug earrings. And yet Fratila sees herself as…
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