October 30, 2005
The crowds roar
There is something poignant about someone else’s radio sounds flowing through the open window alongside the breeze and the sunshine, late on a gorgeous autumn afternoon.
I think it’s a soccer game in Portuguese.
October 30, 2005
Halloween
Our Jack-O-Lantern, expertly carved by Stu. I think it deserves showing off.
October 30, 2005
Woe
Dar Williams, who is my favourite musician in the whole galaxy, is coming to Toronto at the beginning of December but I can’t afford to go.
October 29, 2005
Press This
An exciting day at the Toronto Small Press Bookfair today, where I got to sit beside the wonderful Ms Puddle Press. Pickle Me This Press was also visited by lots of friends, and sold quite a few books, not only to people I know! A highlight was the appearence of my friend Jonathan’s family. I met Jon in Japan, he now lives in Belgium and his parents still live in America, but his sister lives in TO and his parents were up for the weekend, and they all came out to see my book, because Jon’s wife Eri did the Japanese text in it. They were really nice, and it was nice to meet them. Thank you to everyone who supported us today.
On Creative Writing programs and getting rid of books.
Why aren’t you doing your homework Kerry? Partly because there is an uneaten pizza in my kitchen!
October 27, 2005
The life
Today I read so much Virginia Woolf; The London Scene essays in the morning and then an abridged “Three Guineas” in a 1938 Atlantic Monthly all afternoon. When beloved husband came home, we went to buy a pumpkin, he cooked dinner and then we sewed books while watching imported Eastenders. This is the life for me!
October 26, 2005
I have measured out my life in sugar spoons
How quickly the surfaces of our house become covered with empty mugs. If tea were oil, I’d be a sheikh.
October 23, 2005
I love Leonard
Thanks to my devoted co-publisher, nineteen copies of “Spring Comes Suddenly” are nearly assembled. There used to be twenty but one died in the copier. They still require binding and their beautiful strip of Japanese paper down the side, but we’ve got a few days before the Toronto Small Press Book Fair which is of course this Saturday 29 October 2005 from 11am-5pm at Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St W, Toronto. Stuart is really being a regular Leonard Woolf about the whole thing. He does the laundry too!
October 23, 2005
The Amazing Ms. Smith
I went to see Zadie Smith interviewed at the International Festival of Authors yesterday, and if I had actually paid for my ticket rather than get a free student pass, it would have been money well spent. She was incredible- so intelligent, interesting and characteristically cutting in an admirable way. I enjoyed what she had to say about loving books, and living through books. I love her confidence to invent worlds she’s never even seen. I’ve also heard rumours that I will be receiving “On Beauty” as a gift in the near-future, and I am so excited to read it.
