June 22, 2009
CNQ
Canadian Notes & Queries is one of my favourite magazines, and now you can check out their brilliant new website. In particular, may I refer you to my review of Libby Creelman’s novel The Darren Effect which I enjoyed very much.
May 13, 2009
The Final Encounter
Though the blog’s formatting is somewhat messed up (or at least it is on my browser), I’ll point your attention towards my final post over at the Descant Blog. Encounters with Books: In Conclusion.
May 10, 2009
Of mothers, and babies, and books
Today, for the love of Mothers, and babies, and books, my guest post is up at Rona Maynard’s wonderful site. So why not go read “At least the baby’s library is ready” and then have a pleasant Sunday.
April 25, 2009
My fiction in Room
I am very happy to announce that my story “What Noise Can Carry” appears in issue 32.1 of Room Magazine, which is out now. Not sure if it’s in the shops yet, but my copy appeared in the post today. The issue is gorgeous, and I was excited to see that it also contains work by Lorna Crozier and Patricia Young, as well as a review of Jennica Harper’s What It Feels Like For a Girl. It is very nice to be a part of something so good.
April 24, 2009
Finite Time
I’ve written a post over at the Descant blog about reading with finite time. How does one choose what to fill that time with?
March 8, 2009
Small magazine. Big roar.
Over at the Descant blog, I’ve written about the importance of small literary magazines in Canada. This in the wake of federal budget cuts that would eliminate Heritage Canada funding to magazines with a subscription base under 5000. Which, in the words of Bookninja, “is essentially every lit mag out there.” Read my piece, and be sure to join The Coalition to Keep Canadian Heritage Support for Literary and Arts Magazines. At the bottom of the link, find addresses to which you should address your carefully worded letters of protest and support.
Thanks to Stuart Lawler for the image.
January 29, 2009
On reading challenges
Over at the Descant blog, I’ve written a post about the fascinating world of reading challenges.
January 10, 2009
Me in This
My article on fact, fiction, Jonathan Bennett’s Entitlement and Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife is in the January/February issue of This Magazine, which is on sale now.
Update: Online here.
December 23, 2008
A sound economic prospect
Over at the Descant blog, I’ve written about why book buying for Christmas is a sound economic prospect.
December 23, 2008
A Passion for Reading
The text of my presentation for the December 9 Art Matters Forum “A Passion for Reading” has been posted online. I addressed the ways in which literary blogs promote a passion for reading, and how, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal into the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work.”
My co-panelists’ presentations can be found here and are well worth reading.
