Friday, July 31st, 2009
If you thought — like me — no Canadians were longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, you were wrong. Ed O’Loughlin, nominated for his debut novel Not Untrue and Not Unkind, was born in Toronto and spent his early years in Edmonton. I spoke to him on Friday, and the Q&A is posted on The Afterword. Meanwhile, over at That Shakespearean Rag, I take part in a roundtable on digitization along with Steven Beattie, Pasha Malla, and Julie Wilson.
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
In today’s National Post, I chat with Fred Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and columnist at Slate, about his new book 1959: The Year Eveything Changed, and examine the spate of non-fiction books — 1959, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1989 — which claim a year as “the most important ever.”
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
A second harvest: In today’s National Post I chat with Nils Edenloff, frontman of The Rural Alberta Advantage.
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
In today’s National Post, I chat with Clancy Martin about his debut novel, How To Sell.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
I’ve spent much of this week attending the Humber School for Writers researching the next installment in the ongoing The Ecology of Books series. I was fortunate enough to interview Martin Amis, who invited me to sit-in while he taught. I’ve posted a write-up over on The Afterword.
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
In today’s National Post, I explore Toronto’s airport strip.
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
In today’s National Post I review Kathryn Bigelow’s new war drama, The Hurt Locker.
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