In case you are burning for some accessible yet in-depth commentary on the e-book age, here are two articles that have been going around lately: one Amazon (partly on its regular business, but partly on the Kindle), and another on the Google Book Settlement. Amazon vs Macmillan Google Book Deal…
Read MoreFantastic literary event tonight at Aqua books: Absurd Academy, featuring "visual storytellers"--film makers, graphic novelists, and screenwriters: GMB Chomichuk, Susie Moloney (one of our Gemini writers-in-residence), James Rewucki (from Absurd Machine Studios), Mike Sanders. 7 pm at Aqua.
Read MoreI missed posting last week about the death of Canadian writer, film maker, and musician Paul Quarrington. And now, eclipsing the death of a Canadian everyone loved, is the death of an American everyone wondered about: J.D. Salinger. I never really liked Catcher in the Rye myself when I was…
Read MoreAgain with the More Intelligent Life articles! An article for you journalist and PR types, a brief one about how print journalism can't keep up with the speed that information spreads electronically. It makes two interesting points. One is that it leaves journalists more at the mercy of PR types…
Read MoreI've been on Second Life, but I don't completely get it yet. I mean, I get the potential, but I haven't had an ah-ha moment. And I understand why I haven't. I don't know anyone there. Like a really, really elaborate social networking platform, SL has pretty much no point…
Read MoreDo you have it in you to hammer off a poem about the prorogation of parliament? The Mansfield Press is putting out an instant poetry anthology on the matter. They plan to publish it right around when parliament reconvenes in March. And they need your poems. Fast. As in by…
Read MoreSadly, we've lost Canadian poet and visual artist P.K. Page. She'd seen in all in poetry, coming of age during Modernism, but still remaining active and influential to each successive generation of poets. I'll particularly remember her for re-popularizing the glosa back in the '90s. A million glosas followed all…
Read MoreRe-posted from Ariel Gordon: On March 20th, Theatre by the River is putting on a celebration of firsts - first tastes of wines you've never tried and first tastes of Canadian writings no one has ...ever seen. We've received short shots of new works by some of Canada's best writers…
Read MoreSo many calls for submission and events in my various in-boxes lately, I'll just round them up in one post (in no particular order--click the links for more details): Want to get to know what the Manitoba Writers' Guild is all about? Drop-in time is this Thurs, Jan. 14, 4:30-6:30.…
Read MoreBack at More Intelligent Life, another article of interest, one completely unlike my Simpsons indulgence below. There's a new Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens out now, and the site has a little round-up of his life. Wallace Stevens wasn't just a poet. He was one of the greatest poets of…
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