Photo: Marc Roumagnac
It was four months ago that this online literary salon first saw the light of day. In that time, there have been three banner photographs, all of which are displayed in this new post as a way of reminding you to check out the galleries and the photographers' own websites.
This morning I checked out who’s been visiting www.lindaleith.com, and here are the top 30 of 41
locations during the month of June.
Most of you -- 40.2% -- are in Canada, and what surprises me is that there are 27.12% US locations. Not sure why there are so many 19.63% identified only as “unresolved/unknown.”Can anyone explain that?
Am amazed to discover there
are people, or at least computers, in 40 countries checking out this salon, and can even correlate these visitors with what I posted on any given day. Peak time to read salon posts is lunchtime, between 12 and 2 p.m. And the number of visitors spiked on June 13th when I announced the publishing company.
Won't provide all the stats, but here the international list, in order:
40.20% Canada
27.12% United States
19.63% Unresolved/Unknown
1.82% China
1.61% Great Britain (UK)
1.35% Australia
0.73% Germany
0.72% France
0.68% Hong Kong
0.58% Japan
0.57% Singapore
0.56% Romania
0.41% Mexico
0.39% Italy
0.33% Ukraine
0.32% Poland
0.29% Belgium
0.26% Spain
0.25% India
0.22% Switzerland
0.20% Ireland
0.19% Philippines
0.18% Netherlands
0.17% Indonesia
0.16% Hungary
0.14% Brazil
0.14% El Salvador
0.14% United Arab Emirates
0.11% Russian Federation
0.10% Pakistan
Linda Leith
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In these poems there’s much ado about walking and climbing, using one’s legs in muck and water, and leaving behind one’s footprint in the sand. We can take the walk to mean an entire poetic apprehension of the poet’s experience in the world. Yes, I quite like that.
The second part of Ceri Morgan's interview with Martine Delvaux, author of Rose amer, which is published in an English translation by David Homel as Bitter Rose (Linda Leith Publishing, 2015).
The more our lives as writers and readers are spent online, the more we appreciate what the literary festival – of whatever size – has to offer: not only personal contact with other writers and readers, but also friendliness, warmth, and the kind of intimacy that conversations about good books bring out in people who love reading. When the festival is small, these priceless qualities are all the more concentrated. And when a superb setting is added to the mix, the small festival becomes irresistible.
What I loved about Monsieur Lazhar is its
delicacy. So much of what is most powerful here is touched on glancingly. There is genius
at work in the casting and direction of the children, among whom Sophie Nélisse
as Alice and Émilien Néron as Simon are standouts, and of Monsieur Lazhar
himself, played by Algerian actor, comedian and author Fellag.
Fellag, as Monsieur Lazhar