Thursday 21 April 2011
I have to speak for the
generations who don’t have any way to speak out. Before they speak out the
first sentence, they are crushed. I also have to speak out for the people
around me who are afraid… So I want to set an example: You can do it. And this
is OK, to speak out. -- Ai Weiwei
Tuesday 19 April 2011
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.
Add your commentMonday 18 April 2011
What was it Christ said? Unless you be like little children, you cannot be great poets.
Add your commentSaturday 16 April 2011
The real poetry happening on this continent? The playoffs.
Add your commentSaturday 16 April 2011
Quebecers are less than excited by le livre numérique.
Add your commentTuesday 12 April 2011
"The change from print-books to e-books is happening even faster than Heather predicts." -- Bruce Batchelor
Monday 11 April 2011
Looking forward to getting together with the other festival participants: Todd Denault, Sheree Fitch, Paul Kropp, Rabindranath Maharaj, Andrew Potter, Ami Sands Brodoff, Claire Holden Rothman, Alexander MacLeod, Nigel Thomas, Charles H. Mountford and John Whitt.
Add your commentThursday 7 April 2011
Some writers will choose not to self-publish. They may prefer not to spend the time it takes to edit, publish, market and sell their own work. But if they do wish to self-publish, it is now possible to do so without losing face and without losing money. That’s the game changer.
Add your commentTuesday 5 April 2011
"We are living through an extraordinarily dynamic period of change
from which no one will escape unscathed." -- Mike Shatzkin
Sunday 3 April 2011
“The First Emperor could never have dreamed that 2200 years later, his terracotta soldiers would travel to almost every corner of the world, while he still rests in his mysterious underground palace.”
Add your commentFrom Margaret O'Brien: John Vaillant's The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival > read more...
Saturday 2 April 2011
The Tiger is a Poe-like thriller, an analysis of post-perestroika economic disintegration (with plenty of black humour included), a treatise on biodiversity, an overview of paleoanthropology, and a completely absorbing read. But its essence is an intricate and measured plea for humans to understand and value our co-existence with the natural world.
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Friday 1 April 2011
In the venerable tradition of the 1957 BBC documentary on the Spaghetti Harvest and other media hoaxes which combine familiar formatting and a plausible style with invented (and inventive) content, Canada’s book trade paper Quill & Quire has produced a clever online April Fool’s joke on the Canadian book world.
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