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For David Gilmour: A Reading List
The internet’s a bit like Halloween — people feel free to say things behind a mask that they would never say to your face. Last week it was the whole Miley/Sinead thing, where a musician of a certain...
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Stories About Storytellers by Douglas Gibson
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” - Arthur Plotnik A while back I posted about Douglas...
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Bark by Lorrie Moore
“‘Hope is never false. Or it’s always false. Whatever. It’s just hope,’ she said. ‘Nothing wrong with that.’” – Lorrie Moore, Bark Bark is Lorrie Moore’s first story collection since the...
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Lorrie Moore: Interview
Photo credit: Linda Nylind One of the most well-regarded writers in America is in Toronto and I am about to meet her. I’m in a boardroom at the offices of Lorrie Moore’s Canadian publisher, copies of...
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Some thoughts on writing
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” – Maya Angelou Ok, yeah, hi, it’s been a while, I know. It’s not that I haven’t been...
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Review: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
“[The]past is like overseas: it still exists, even when you are not there anymore. Future time too. It is there already.” – Tom Rachman, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers My reading slump...
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A bunch of stuff that happened in my book world, February edition
“The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.” – Joseph Wood Krutch, writer and February-hater. February is the shortest month of the year, but it...
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God Help the Child by Toni Morrison: a review
“Let the reader enter with his or her own imagination.” — Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is one of the most respected and beloved writers working in America today. The winner of the Nobel Prize for...
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On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
“When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own...
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Summertime: Kanye West, Hemingway, and Daiquiris
“As a writer you should not judge, you should understand.” — Ernest Hemingway Kanye West is performing tonight at the closing ceremonies for the Pan Am games in Toronto. There’s been a lot of...
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