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Largely Literary Linkage: Graphic design, poetry, death, Randroids and motherfuckers

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As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, The Globe and Mail recently changed up their Books section staff. There was an outpouring of goodwill on Twitter, which was heartening to see. More info on Q&Q, and an even-handed response from the Literary Press Group. As a result, they’re hiring a new Books Editor. If you’re interested, you

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Four reviews in Broken Pencil 58

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Another great issue of Broken Pencil, of course. Especially the feature on the rise of books about punk rock. For so long no one felt they were marketable, now we have an explosion of them, and it’s wonderful. In this issue I reviewed Mark Hazelbower’s You Can’t Get There from Here, ((The image above my review of You

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Shelf Life: November 2012

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Lots of review stuff this month. I’m going to leave it very short, as I’m very behind. 143. The Grotesque in Art and Literature, by Wolfgang Johannes Kayser (McGraw-Hill, 1963) A collection of essays discussing the origins and evolution of the grotesque in art and literature. It was dry, and I felt left out – I hadn’t

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Hobbits, lawyers, boardgames and space

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Broken Pencil has launched The Nub in conjunction with Geist, Matrix, subTerrain, and Taddle Creek. It’s a new app for iPhone and Android that collects indie arts and culture articles, short stories, review, comics, interviews and a bunch of other neat sounding stuff. I know this because they’ve e-mailed me about it like three times in the past two

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