How do you pronounce “boatswain”?
The Globe and Mail wins the prize for obscurity.
One of Linda Leith Publishing's fall books is Mavis Gallant's only play, What Is To Be Done? When our friends who run All Lit Up asked for ideas for blog posts, we put together a proposal we hope they'd go for in the "Character Study" category, imagining the play as a movie and having fun casting it. This all was Carmelita McGrath's work, and she packed it off last week. So now look what they've done. Those brilliant women have not only used the post, but have included a movie poster for it, with an image of Joe Stalin a cast to die for:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? starring Chloe Grace Moretz
Abigail Breslin James McAvoy and
Meryl Street as Mrs. Bailley
Music by Karen O
Based on the play
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? BY MAVIS GALLANT
A LINDA LEITH PUBLISHING PRODUCTION
DIRECTED BY TERRY ZWIGOFF
Inspired!
Linda Leith
The Globe and Mail wins the prize for obscurity.
Patterson Webster’s exhibition Land Marks – nicely translated as Pays sage – explores how
people shape the natural world and are shaped by it. Intrigued
when I attended the show and walked the trails, I asked Webster questions about
her work, to which she responded by email.
Her work is exhibited in a gallery setting at the
North Hatley Library (165 Main Street, North Hatley) and outdoors at Glen Villa
Gardens (1000 chemin North Hatley, Sainte-Catherine–de-Hatley), where you can walk the Abenaki and In Transit trails daily, 1–5 p.m. Enter the property on the private drive
marked with a flag. Follow signs for parking. See brochure and map. Duration of
walk: 45 minutes (1.5 km) round trip.
After 60 years of absolute power, the Chinese Communist Party is more fragile than the world thinks – and has trouble dealing with any criticism or challenge, especially from its own people.
The good news, such as it is, is that there are so few of us -- Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Anglos, and all the rest of us “others” -- in the Quebec public service that Madame Marois’s proposed Charter of Secularism would make little practical difference.