Literary Photographer

The Guardian has a Memoir On A Postcard feature in their book section. You can type right onto an online postcard and either send it as a private message or post it in public. A feature inspired by the book One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?  An examples given from the book include Blake Morrison’s [...]

Margaret Atwood has a powerful essay in the Globe and Mail on the arts in Canada and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attitude towards art and artists. The end is especially chilling. A must read, especially with an election looming.
And now check out out John Doyle as well.

Tom Hawthorn has an excellent article in the Globe and Mail about Jim Munro and his Munro’s Books celebrating 45 years in business in Victoria with special events this coming weekend including an invitation only literary costume party. Mr. Munro will be there as Prospero.

For those of you who like lists and/or are planning a book buying trip to the U.K., The Independent lists the 50 Best Bookshops in Britain. Interesting to see that #8 on the list is Abe Books, the online bookseller from Victoria, British Columbia.

The Purdy house on Robin Lake in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, built by Al Purdy and fellow poet Milton Acorn, is being put up for sale by his widow Eurithe. Attempts to have the house preserved as a writers’ retreat have attracted little interest. From the Globe and Mail.

In the Globe and Mail, Russell Smith on the movement against ‘crapspeak’, slang used by bureaucrats and those in the corporate world.
In the Independent, a travel piece on the village of Deia on Mallorca which was the haunt of bohemian English writers, including Robert Graves.  Timely, in that they also have a piece on Graves [...]

Thirty years after the National Conference on the Canadian Novel in Calgary picked the 100 most important works of fiction in Canada, the Globe and Mail has five experts pick their top ten Canadian novels. The 1978 Calgary conference also picked their top ten. They were:
The Stone Angel (1964) Margaret Laurence.
Fifth Business (1970) Robertson Davies.
As [...]

Writers foreseeing the future in their fiction. Who’s done it. The Times check their crystal ball.
Where do you review audio books? The Independent looks at the 10 best children’s audio books in their books pages.
Emma Brockes on Lorrie Moore in the Sydney Morning Herald. A great headline Writing’s Easier For Obsessives.
In the Guardian, a look [...]

The Globe and Mail on Douglas Gibson leaving M&S.
From the Guardian, why books need to be touched not just looked at although Chas Newkey-Burden begs to differ on the subject of second hand books
In the Independent, the “Espresso Book Machine” will allow you to print out a novel in seven minutes.
In the times (London), books [...]

In the Globe and Mail, Andrew Pyper on the search by publishers for bestsellers.