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A literary walk through Toronto’s Annex
Greg Gatenby’s ‘Toronto, A Literary Guide’ published in 1999 is a thick book that provides a tour of residences and places in Toronto that have a literary connection. This March, Stephen Cain, writing in Open Book Toronto, told about a walking tour of the Annex area that he and another person designed using Gatenby’s [...]
Write Tight
From Time magazine, an article on brief writing that begins:
‘Short is in. Online Americans, fed up with e-mail overload and blogorrhea, are retreating into micro-writing. Six-word memoirs. Four-word film reviews. Twelve-word novels. Mini-lit is thriving.’
Border Line Ignorance
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has a great (small but slowly, slowly growing) section online on Northwest writers that includes a range of writers from novelist Tom Robbins to cartoonist Ellen Forney. Each piece has a sample of writing as well as a video of the writer speaking on a variety of topics.
Looking through the section [...]
Top 10 Canadian Novels For Canada Day
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 [...]
Crystal balls and independent bookstores
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 [...]
Influences
Photographing writers is not new. Many other photographers have specialized in images of authors.
Two photographers who introduced me to the idea of photographing writers were John Reeves and Sam Tata.
Reeves, a Toronto photographer who works with a large format camera, is known for his images of people connected with the arts, including writers. He shoots [...]
As Good As Any Place To Begin
A is for Atwood, which is as good as any place to begin.
That’s her photograph at the top of this page. The other portraits are Peter Oliva (at left) and Wayson Choy.
I make a living as a photographer but am fascinated by the world of writing. All writing and all aspects although I probably read [...]