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The death of literature (yes, again…), poetic dendrophiliacs, and other bookish stuff

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Though it can seem like it sometimes, the world’s not all bad. Apparently whales are learning to speak human, or at least trying, and that’s pretty awesome. Maybe once they get the hang of it they can advise us how to live better. Canadian publishing is about to get smaller with Douglas & McIntyre filing for bankruptcy […]

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Shelf Life: August 2012

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Very brief comments on a lengthy list of books read in August. A banner month. 101. The History of Tattooing, by  Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (Dover, reprinted 2009) I love tattoos. At the time I read this I had only two, but for months I had been looking for an artist to complete my third and fourth. As I

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Shelf Life: July 2012

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July’s reading consisted largely of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and comics. By the end of the month I’d reached 100 books read in 2012. 82. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador, 2010) Huh. This is the second month I’ve entered this year reading Jonathan Frazen. I have no idea why. It’s not intentional. Like The Corrections, it’s a

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Writing advice, reviewing advice, and a new pic of Emily Dickinson

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After going to St Jacob’s Market last Thursday, I spent the next few days canning up a storm. I made several dozen jars of spicy dill spears, bread and butter pickles, pickled jalapeños, blueberry jam, strawberry vanilla jam, plain strawberry jam, peach plum ginger jam, brandied peaches, and on Wednesday I had another, more successful, go at

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Shelf Life: June 2012

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A mixed bag of poetry, graphic novels, non-graphic novels, literary criticism and other non-fiction. 66. Selected Poems, by Robert Bringhurst (Gaspereau Press, 2009) I haven’t read Bringhurst before, but this collection was recommended to me. It contains selected poems from several other works. Philosophy and a wandering geography, from Japan to the Middle East and elsewhere, I’m

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