28 April 2012
This is the kind of man that young men of my generation and perhaps a younger generation must have wanted to be, especially young men who wanted to write.
Graham Greene, The Comedians (NY: Viking, 1965) is available from Abebooks.
19 April 2012
Who would do that in any other city? I thought happily. It seemed promising—but this wasn’t the day I fell in love with the city.
18 April 2012
Why a town becomes a gathering place of the literati is a subject for literary histories. In Rye’s case, it may well have been the seductions of the past, which certainly seduced Henry James.
Conduit Street, Rye
9 April 2012
An Insider’s View of the NDP Leadership Convention (continued)
By Louise Tremblay Matchett
2 April 2012
An Insider's View of the 2012 NDP Leadership Convention
by Louise Tremblay Matchett
29 March 2012
Amused, this morning, to see my reference to the Sugar Sammy of Literature has made the headlines.
16 March 2012
Very bad news -- and a sign of the times in writing and publishing. We here are going to miss you.
12 March 2012
Locomotive 162, Grand Truck Railway
(Courtesy National Gallery of Canada)
12 March 2012
The legacy of 11 September, the rise of radical Islam, and the persistence of revolutionary elements in some of Canada’s ethnic groups is likely to call forth the McGee who took an uncompromising stand against militants within his own ethnoreligious community, who challenged self-righteous political and religions certainties, and who argued for a broad, tolerant, decent, open-minded, and compassionate society in which people did not push others off the path.
9 March 2012
Shirley Hazzard's book has the effect of sending us back to the novels of Greene and of Hazzard herself, but that has more do with the quality of her writing than with any literary genre. It also has something to do with her love of her subject.
2 March 2012
And here's Part II of the Free Money panel.
2 March 2012
Is it fair to call grants for artists and their organizations “free money”?
That’s the provocative title of this segment of the Tommy Schnurmacher show on CJAD 800 Radio, Thursday, February 1, 2012.
28 February 2012
by Guy Tiphane
A visit to schools supported by Child Aid, an organization that sets up school libraries and reading programs in poor areas of Guatemala.
22 February 2012
Contributing editor Marie-Andrée Lamontagne’s introductory text for the French online Salon .ll. argues that literature has never thrived as much as it does today, when it has all but disappeared from sight.
Translation by Jonathan Kaplansky.
Contributing editors Felicia Mihali, Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, and Annabelle Moreau planning the
literary salon, October 2011.
21 February 2012
In the must and age and rainy days of those European libraries many moons ago, I was in a place that was mine; I was home. I might have been in another time; I was outside of time. Back then, I hadn’t yet published a line, and now I wait, along with thousands of other writers, for a slip of paper that reminds me not only that my words exist in the world, but that they are alongside countless other worlds. In libraries we are utterly ourselves, and we are in the best company.
8 February 2012
"This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love." -- Vladimir Nabokov
3 February 2012
by Kenneth Radu
Wicked company, therefore, is to be understood as the hostile official attitude towards men (mostly men) of intellectual daring who challenged the assumptions of religion and society. Inconvenient thinkers could be imprisoned and atheists could still be executed at the time, a practice I believe some would wish to continue today. That was the purpose of the radical salon: room for a coterie of free thinkers to converse bravely on many subjects, including dangerous critiques of the ancien régime and the Church, without fear of reprisal, at least from their fair hostess.
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