Ever imaginative Insomniac Press has come up with a great idea: publish the blog musings of Canadian rock stars. They’re starting first with Jan Arden and following up next year…
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Letterman infiltrates the mind of New Mexico woman. Hey, what if she’s only the first to come forward? If Letterman is speaking in complicated codes maybe there should be a…
A translation program that you can watch working…sort of. Mais combien futé est-il? Essayez-le pour vous-même.
Ah yes, the discover-an-object exercise. A good place to start learning the craft of poetry, lets hope it leads somewhere just a little more challenging. And what is this formula…
This is an unbelievably powerful and candid piece about webcams and pedophiles using the net. It’s enough to make you just want to unplug and never log on again… There…
Toronto hipster Hal Niedzviecki on the rapid internet-ization of the book, the niche market joke book, or rise of the ever-digestible, high gloss info-book. NIEDZVIECKI
Ah Pepys. Here’s a comment on Kinaston, the subject of the recent Stage Beauty about the moment when women began playing women on stage. Actually Pepys character was one of…
Thanks to Bookninja for pointing this out. Like the portal in Being John Malkovich, it turns out McNally Robinson, in SoHo, is a conduit for Canadian literary figures to slip…
More amazements. Here you can find Dylan Thomas reading a selection of poetry, and more seasonally appropriate, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, which after all, is still amazing.
A poem in which the first letter of each line makes up the name George W. Bush has been taken from the latest English language text in Islamabad, reports the…