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Literary Photographer
A literary magazine of photography, interviews, news and reviews.
Field Notes - Sandra Shields and David Campion
Partners in life and work, writer Sandra Shields and photographer David Campion work together on long term projects, chronicling...
John W. MacDonald - Ottawa Photographer - Interview
LP: John, you’re a visual chronicler of Ottawa, do you see Ottawa as a documentary project? JWM: I guess I see myself as...
Theresa Kishkan - Red Laredo Boots and Phantom Limb - Interview
LP: You’ve had two books of essays published Red Laredo Boots ( New Star Books ) and Phantom Limb ( Thistledown...
Patrick Blennerhassett - Monument - Interview
LP: Monument’s characters are heavy drinking, drug abusing, amoral, racist, violent, misogynist young men yet somehow the reader...
Tim Bowling - Interview
LP: Your childhood, salmon fishing and a certain part of the lower mainland where you grew up play an integral role in most of your writing. Can you fill...
Dave Bidini - Interview with Writer/Musician
Photo (from First Chapter ) of Dave Bidini, with Bobby Orr button, Hockey Canada tuque and short lived mustache.
The Toronto Star has a great profile on writer/musician Dave Bidini, check it out here.
Pacific Festival of the Book
Due to travel/work I missed the 3rd annual Pacific Festival of the Book that ran May 4-15. Well, I did manage to run in to (for maybe 10 minutes) one panel discussion and here, finally, are a couple of photos from the event. I didn’t want the Festival to pass without a mention even if [...]
Beat poet Harold Norse, dead at 92
Obituaries from the New York Times and the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Poets And Authors Write The News
Israeli newspaper assigns 31 poets and authors to cover the news for one day.
If You’re Happy And Don’t Want To Be………
The Independent has a quirky feature by David Nicholls, a list of The Top Ten Literary Tear Jerkers. This is actually quite amusing, not quite what you’d expect from a list of this sort.
Here’s a sample:
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST BY KEN KESEY
I’ve not read this for twenty-five years now, so am quite prepared [...]
Other People Are Busy With Ugly Big Toes
I may have been inactive but other sites are busy.
Zach Well’s latest entry at Career Limiting Moves is titled The Ugly Big Toe of Essentialism and frankly it’s worth reading for that headline alone.
While I was slacking off, John MacDonald was very busy documenting the Ottawa literary scene (and family, and news etc).
Richard at Book [...]
Back And Annoyed But With A Reminder of Robert Service
My apologies for the lack of updates, interviews etc.
I have been busy, away etc. and the downside of one person operation is that it’s one person.
I had hoped to get the site rolling again tonight with photos from the David Sedaris reading at Bolen Books but that won’t be happening as I was told that [...]
Michael Ignatieff - True Patriot Love - Book Signing
Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff, also known in certain circles for being the leader of the federal Liberal party, was on hand for the afternoon book signing of his latest publication True Patriot Love at Victoria’s Munro’s book store. A huge lineup snaked through the store and outside and down the sidewalk as people waited for [...]
P. K. Page -You are Here - Book Launch
The Grande Dame of Canadian Letters, P.K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page, launched her latest book ‘You are Here’ , published by Hedgerow Press, with a book reading and signing at the Winchester Galleries Humboldt Street location in Victoria. The 92-year-old Page, who is especially noted for her poetry, has had nearly forty books published in genres [...]