I tweet this stuff all the time, but for those of you not on Twitter (Seriously? How can you not be on Twitter?) I’ve compiled this little Friday treat to get your weekend reading started. Who knows? Maybe it’ll even become a semi-regular feature. I know, there are already a few great blogs doing this already, and […]
Ernest Hemingway in a bathing suit and other important news Read more »
By now you’ve probably heard that the Literary Press Group of Canada (LPG) has lost their funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, without warning. You can read their full press release here. Why this matters LPG represents some 47 independent small presses and some 225 titles – many of them presses that actively work to publish
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This is crazy town. I just planted these, what, two weeks ago? And now I have actual strawberries happening in my garden. Wow. ((For the record, shortly after this picture was taken I weeded out that little plant you see below the berries. Lemon balm. I can’t get it to stop growing. I don’t even have it
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April seemed to be a month for poetry and reading books for Broken Pencil reviews. 36. Attack of the Copula Spiders, by Douglas Glover (Biblioasis, 2012) The subtitle proclaims this a collection of essays about writing, and while the first two may be construed as such, the remaining essays are primarily concerned with reading. It’s a great
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I finally got around to watching the recording of Neil Gaiman’s Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012 today, and I’m sorry I waited. Everyone and their brother’s already linked to it, but if, like me, you put off watching it for whatever reason, here’s another chance: Neil Gaiman‘s a fantastic speaker, and it’s
This weekend I added a few more plants to the garden. The lower left hand corner is zucchini, and in the lower right corner is a strawberry plant. I’ve started watering the garden in the mornings, as I often don’t get home until after 11 pm, and that seems a bit late to stumble around in the
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