20 Nov Trampoline Hall
Last week, I finally attended that hallmark happening of literary Toronto, Trampoline Hall. (Whether it's really a hallmark of anything but entertaining absurdity is open for debate....
06 Nov “Outsource memory, culture withers”
I've just finished reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. I...
30 Oct History is a dish made of 100 sparrows
Or so sayth Anchee Min, one of three authors who participated in a round table discussion at the International Festival of Authors today. ...
12 Oct Food for thought
The blogosphere holds a veritable bonanza of topics. ...
14 Apr The language of copy editing
I've just finished a 14-week class in copy editing, which is offered as part of the publishing program at Ryerson University. ...
15 Nov All the literary festivals I didn’t attend
The subtitle of this post is “and all the blog posts I didn’t write.”...
29 Aug Straight from the writer’s mouth
YouTube, that ubiquitous video sharing site, is also a literary treasure trove in disguise. ...
25 Jun Dial-a-Story adorableness
On a recent trip to my local public library I spotted this flyer on the announcement board outside....
29 May A literary ‘star’ at Cannes
The Festival de Cannes rolls up its red carpet tomorrow, leaving in its wake a plethora of must-see films....
20 Apr Poems for the planet
April is National Poetry Month, or Planetary Poetry Month, as the Globe has dubbed it. ...