The Ever-Evolving Book

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

Life of Pepys

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…

Vanity Fair Finds Toronto

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…

Dylan Thomas

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.

George W. Bush poem scrapped

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…

We have Monday & Tuesday covered

Leslie Bumstead & Sina Queyras Poetry ProjectSt. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St.New York, NY Monday, 8:00pm All events are $8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members and…

An Eye on the Entertainment Weekly

Eye takes a look at lit journals. Sort of. Lit journals, the author claims “like farm journals, but without the sex appeal…are an ultra-niche phenomenon”. Really? I haven’t done the…

The Danforth Review

In my ongoing effort to include All Things Canadian in my sidebar, I have been visiting and revisiting sites. I’m looking to compile a complete list, but given my schedule,…

Gone to print!

Well, it’s officially off my desk…in case you’ve been wondering where all the time to post has suddenly come from. Wow, I actually have a life! More on Open Field…