It’s snowing. A lot. Last night my power went out for three hours, and I had to work in the dark, my only illumination candlelight and the fading glow of a dying laptop. As a result, once again, my kitten’s eyebrows have gone all curly. She’s adorable, but more than a little stupid when it comes to […]
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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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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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I’m trying to put together my first poetry collection, which is turning out to be way more complicated than I thought. I have all these poems, some of which have been published, but trying to gather them into something resembling a reasonably coherent book is challenging. I’ve never done this before, and I have no idea, really,
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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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Ah, the smell of leaves and awards in the air…Yup, still fall. The winners of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced, and congratulations are due to Linda Spalding for English Fiction (The Purchase) and Julie Bruck for English Poetry (Monkey Ranch). There are numerous other categories of winners for works in both English and
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