"LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy
sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a
recent night on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is full of strange contingencies." Continue reading...
Imitatio is the best form of...
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In a post not long ago, I categorized Kenneth Goldsmith as a "Son of Ben."
After all, as I said, it was Ben Jonson who
... introduced the word "plagi...
The Grey Album Drops
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Kevin Young’s first book of nonfiction is reviewed over at the New York
Times Books. Dwight Garner tells us this marvelous mashup is “Equal parts
blues sho...
100 Best Living Irish Poets: #100 KEVIN HIGGINS
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In time for St. Patrick's Day, *Eyewear* is beginning its celebration of
the one hundred leading Irish poets now living - in no special order of
ranking....
Try To Summarize Your Novel in a Sentence or Two
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*I sometimes suggest to inexperienced writers that they try to summarize
their novels in progress in a sentence or two. It’s a useful though limited
way ...
Ryan Ridge
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from American Homes
American Guest Rooms
What art offers is space.
Updike said.
The same can be said for moon colonization.
One time I shot for the moon b...
Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault
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Kyo Maclear is author of the beloved 2007 novel The Letter Opener and is,
with illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, the force behind the acclaimed Spork.
Her la...
On Reading & Reviewing
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Literary fiction consists of story and manner. That is, the same story
(plot) can be told any number of ways. As Wallace Stevens reminded us,
there are 13 ...
I promise nothing.
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Happy to be shortlisted for a Manitoba Book Award — the John Hirsch Award
for Most Promising Writer. Congratulations to all those shortlisted!
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Every few years British Columbians open their newspapers to a story
concerning our (right-of-centre) provincial government “floating” the idea
of (re)train...
Some Vancouver and area Used Bookstores & Sellers…
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Got a nice Klanak (Tak Tanabe) Press book here… at Pulpfiction, located
near the premises of Douglas & McIntyre, a publishing house, whose
multi-award winn...
Atticus Books on "Being Indie"
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*On "Being Indie" is a monthly feature hosted here on TNBBC. We will meet a
wide variety of independent authors, publishers, and booksellers as they
discus...
Linares Day 2.5
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Very busy day yesterday and was too damn tired to post anything last night.
Read to a class at the Technical University in the morning, which went well, the...
Life Stories #3: Rachel Shukert & Rev Jen
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This episode of Life Stories, my podcast series of interviews with memoir
writers about their lives and the art of memoir, was recorded in front of a
live ...
“How do I alleviate my aloneness?”
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“[Anne Frank] was adept at self-examination and felt that people would
benefit if at the end of each day ‘they were to review their own
behaviour.’ Her att...
WCW on television
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John Wingate on the air at "Nightbeat" in 1957 (left) and William Carlos
Williams in the '50s
I'll bet most readers of this commentary did not real...
Reading in Calgary
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I’ve just confirmed that I will be reading as part of the launch of filling
Station #52 at Shelf Life Books (100, 1302 – 4th Street SW) March 23rd at
7:00p...
dollhouse
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I have been posting lots of pictures of the dollhouse on flickr, where
Suzanne Stein recently asked a question. Here it is, with my answer.
1.
suz...
Threshold Songs
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One of the great pleasures of editing the Constant Critic is that my fellow
critics consistently bother me with what they say in their
reviews—providing th...
books that burn turn into torches
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Read an interesting article in the NYT blog by Tim Parks, "E-Books Can't
Burn". It's a good read, but the comments impressed me even more than the
post its...
Danielle Cadena Deulen
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Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. She is the author *Lovely
Asunder*, winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize (University
of Arkan...
Retail 2012: Mansfield Press
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Something of a consistent source of surprise, the little press that is
based in Toronto, but does its poetry from Cobourg. The list this season is
decidly ...
The New Blogging Poet Aggregated
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This account will expire in 8 days so I'm allowing most of what's here to
disappear from the Internet forever but some of my works can be found at BloggingP...
National Geographic enters the digital shorts market Scientists examine
Henry David Thoreau’s journals to track climate change Will the success of
Fifty Sh...
David Creedon's haunting photographs of abandoned Irish emigrants' homes --
collected in the book "Ghosts of the Faithful Departed" (released in the
U.S....
At one of last year's TED conferences, writer A. J. Jacobs spoke about his
long, three-tiered self-improvement project that has resulted in three
books, ...
In its 49th year the forever-young fair has launched a standalone digital
prize – with companies such as the UK's Nosy Crow going up against the
bigger b...
No matter how cliché it sounds, the phrase “don’t judge a book by its
cover” has complete relevance here. In this instance, though, don’t judge a
film by i...
Winners of the subTerrian 2011 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards can be found in the newest issue (Winter 2011/#60):Fiction:Michael Kissinger (Vancouver, BC) f...
Here in the office, we want our Descant friends and family to have fun!
That’s why we’ve spent so many sunny Spring days cooped up indoors to put
together ...
I'm sorry to report, another fine small press poet has died: Leonard J.
Cirino. Over the years, I've published a few pieces by Leonard in *Lilliput
Rev...
Over at the Globe & Mail, Jim Bartley reviews Daniel Griffin's Stopping for
Strangers :
It only takes a page or two to conclude that Daniel Griffin values...
Some of you might just now be getting out of the AWP fog/detox and I can
hardly blame you for the fun you've had. I about lost my mind on the way
home as i...
Come and join us for the launch reading of the new issue of Magma on Monday
5th March at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, as part of the Coffee
House ...
1913 Press is excited to be launching a brand new collaborative
book--"Conversities" by Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy--at AWP this
week. Please join us...
Editor's Note: After hearing in December that Morgan underwent a lung
transplant, I had been checking his FB page every day for updates from his
family and...
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