The 2012 VIDA count has been out for more than a month now, and now Strange Horizons has released their 2012 count for science fiction and fantasy. The numbers do not look good, kids. More here. I’ll be helping with CWILA’s 2012 count this year. I’ve just received my instructions. I’ll keep you posted as to when […]
Largely Literary Linkage: The Tardis library, zines, and poets Read more »
Goth is all but gone from Queen West. Bookstores are closing. Rob “the Jerk” Ford’s approval rating is rising. (Seriously?!) What is my poor city coming to? Forget it. Escapism. That’s what the Internet’s for, right? At least in part? So, change your Twitter language settings to lolcat, and…Oh, wait. Most of these links are equally depressing.
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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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 »
plutopsyche: “Whoever best describes the problem is the one most likely to solve it.” –Dan Roam jesus: Ponies for everyone! (You can tell it’s a poem by the line breaks.)
A poem from the Internet via an atheist Read more »
