Ramona Koval, presenter of
The Book Show
The Quebec “Nobel” goes to novelist Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
November 9, 2011 4:59 pm
Now 67, VLB is in the process of reissuing his complete works. His plan is to publish 666 copies of each work, seeing that as the number of real readers he can count on in Quebec.
From Helen Lyttelton: Film review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive
November 9, 2011 4:28 pm
Ambiguous, evocative and sometimes terrifyingly violent, Drive is worth the watch.
From Ruth Gruenthal: Emma Bovary, Bourgeois Heroine
November 9, 2011 11:54 am
It is one of my principles that one must not write about oneself. The artist should be like God in creation, invisible and all-powerful; so that one can feel him everywhere, but see him not at all. -- Gustave Flaubert
Of Shakespeare, Anonymous, and Muriel Spark
November 4, 2011 4:37 pm
Shakespeare is – let us put it this way – the least English
of English writers.
The typical quality of the English is understatement, saying a little less than
what you see. In contrast, Shakespeare tended toward the hyperbolic metaphor,
and it would come to us as no surprise to learn that Shakespeare had been
Italian, or Jewish, for instance.
-- Jorge Luis Borges 1979
From Yoko Morgenstern: A Blue Fish
November 1, 2011 12:52 pm
Literary non-fiction from Yoko Morgenstern.
Photo: Danny Stoecker
Poet and psychiatrist Joël des Rosiers wins Quebec’s national literary prize
November 1, 2011 11:55 am
In addition to being a gifted poet and a practicing psychiatrist, Des Rosiers is a courageous and open-minded gentleman for whom I have great respect. This, as we all know, has nothing much to do with literary merit, most of the time. I mention it because it gives me even more reason to rejoice that Quebec has chosen to celebrate Joël des Rosiers and his work with its highest literary honour.
Doug Gibson's Stories about Storytellers, reviewed by Linda Leith
October 28, 2011 5:22 pm
My review of Doug Gibson's Stories about Storytellers has just appeared on the Globe Books site and no doubt in the paper tomorrow.
From Yan Liang: Q & A with Norwegian Wood director Tran Anh Hung
October 26, 2011 1:54 pm
"I am a guy who is Vietnamese, living in France, making a Japanese movie. But Vietnamese culture is really deep inside me. Let’s say I enjoy watching Vietnamese women more than others. It’s something like that. I feel that I am a different man when I am in Vietnam compared with France. I feel that I’m not living my life fully in France, I feel as though my life is in suspension. It is not something I dislike, that’s just how it is."
From Guy Tiphane: Letter from San Francisco
October 25, 2011 12:10 pm
Like an earthquake, Litquake is felt through the entire city and what we call the Bay Area.
Much outcry as Australian broadcaster kills popular radio book show
October 3, 2011 11:56 am
I will take this opportunity to point to the spectacular
example that Australia’s Book Show has set in books coverage on radio –
and to lament that fact that we don’t have anything that comes even
close to daily books coverage here in Canada.
Ramona Koval, presenter of
The Book Show
Ramona Koval, presenter of
The Book Show