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Adam McPhee

Adam McPhee is a writer whose fiction has appeared in Old Moon Quarterly, Ahoy Comics, and has been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. He has a keen interest in historical diarists, and has written for The Samuel Pepys Club Journal. His book reviews have appeared in minor literature[s], Temz Review, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. He writes the Substack newsletter Adam’s Notes. He lives in Alberta, Canada.
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    “Beloved Son Felix”: Coming of Age in the Renaissance

    And yet for all this death, life went on, and what makes the journal truly fascinating are the everyday details of the mid-16th century. On a day trip to Villeneuve, Felix notes that rosemary is so abundant that it’s collected…