I love a good index. J.G. Ballard once wrote a great short story using the form. Sarah Palin’s memoir is suspiciously missing one. So this week Slate posted their own index for Going Rogue that they claim is accurate, with “science” worthy of only one ...
W ith the launch of the Amazon Kindle in Canada, and the annual consumer orgy of December around the corner, publishers and hardcore readers are probably trying to frantically clear $259 (USD) on their credit cards. I’ve harshed on the Kindle before for ...
O ur culture elevates “the film adaptation” as the ultimate honour a novel could achieve -- but a film adaptation seems positively lame compared to a renegade six-hour reading of your novel in a gallery, featuring among others, “crossover appeal” porn ...
T he act of writing, and attending galas celebrating writing, bleed into each other in interesting ways when they happen on the same day. The former involves, for me, waking up at 6 a.m., running with the dog and then sitting down to stare for several ...
H aving not read any of the books shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize I cannot speak to any of the inherent qualities of the titles and how those qualities could make for a winner. For that kind of insight, I recommend Steven Beattie’s Giller ...
S omeone this week - I honestly forget who - said that Scotland and Canada face similar obstacles in their cultural production: how best to differentiate ourselves from far larger cultural machines to the south. Beyond that, however, questions of ...
A fter 10 days of constant reporting on the 30th year of the International Festival of Authors, I hope you understand that I’m not completely sad to see the assignment be done with. Of course, the highlights far outnumbered the lowlights that, frankly, ...
“ I t’s the PG version,” Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene says of his band’s history as it appears in This Book Is Broken . At IFOA on Friday night, Drew, along with Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning and former producer Dave Newfield, ...
M any have attempted to unravel the mysteries of Anne Murray, from Lester Bangs in 1973 to, most recently, the Globe and Mail's Michael Posner who joined Murray onstage at IFOA tonight to discuss their book about her life and career, All of Me . Murray ...
W hen I ask Stuart Berman for a video playlist the author of This Book Is Broken responds, “That idea may be exhausted, unless we can come up with another angle.” As the chronicler of Broken Social Scene and their coterie, Berman has been playlisted out ...
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