So, news. Jan Zwicky wrote an essay for The Malahat Review titled “The Ethics of the Negative Review,” which CWILA republished on their site. Michael Lista responded to it, quite negatively, in the National Post’s Afterword. Then Zwicky responded to his response. And Lista responded to her response of his response. You following? Other people have weighed […]
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A varied month. 50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador , 1988, 2001) To backtrack, I really liked The Corrections, and thought The Discomfort Zone was pretty good, but I felt like I kept waiting for Twenty-Seventh City to make sense. At its most bare, it’s the story of a conspiracy by a group of people to destroy
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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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Novels, graphic novels, children’s books and non-fic, but no poetry? How did that happen? 23. The Game, by Ken Dryden (Wiley, 1983, 2005) Continuing reading the Canada Reads 2012 shortlist in reverse order of elimination, ((See Shelf Life: February 2012 for more.)) I read The Game despite my complete lack of interest in hockey. And loved it.
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This month I tackled most of the Canada Reads short list in reverse order of elimination. Though I still haven’t yet read Something Fierce. 14. Kenk, by Richard Poplak (Pop Sandbox, 2010) The graphic biography of Toronto’s Igor Kenk, told through grainy punk-style photocopied stills excerpted from filmed interviews. Poplak reveals a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of the
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I’ve never really set targets for my reading before, beyond a general expectation that I’d read at least a hundred books a year, but last year a friend pushed me to challenge myself to commit to 150. According to Goodreads I surpassed it, but according to my own count I read 135. I read twenty-seven graphic novels
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