My first memories of Gordon Lightfoot are hearing his music coming from the old transistor radio in the corner of the kitchen in the house where I grew up in Ancaster, Ontario. Late seventies, early eighties. The radio was always on. I remember hearing Buddy Holly for the first time. I remember Barry Manilow and [...]
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Talking to Nathaniel G. Moore about SAVAGE: The Art of Macho Madness
Check out this interview with Nathaniel G Moore about his interesting new exhibition at The White House in Toronto’s Kensington Market. CRANBURY / MOORE / SAVAGE INTERVIEW The mercurial and evanescent Nathaniel G Moore – check out his eponymous website, Critical Crushes – is curating SAVAGE: CULT OF PERSONALITY, PURE MEDIA & THE ART OF [...]
Robert Dugoni: This Day We Write! Live Audio from Surrey International Writers’ Conference
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Dugoni today. He’s a Seattle writer who has come to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference to teach a few master classes, inspire some writers, and maybe blow a few minds along the way. Earlier in the morning I had checked out his website while battling a vintage brew [...]
Charlottetown’s Jeff Bursey Added to Real Vancouver Writers’ Take 6 at W2 Woodwards, Monday May 30th.
The Real Vancouver Reading Series is happy to add Jeff Bursey – all the way from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – to the roster of the upcoming RVWS Take 6 event on Monday May 30th at W2 Woodwards. Jeff will be reading from his book Verbatim A Novel, published in September 2010 by Ensfield [...]
Talking to Simon Winchester about Atlantic.
I had the good fortune to spend an hour speaking to Simon Winchester at his hotel in downtown Vancouver. We talked about a future book that he’s been researching during a recent trip along the west coast of the USA and Canada. But we were really there to discuss his fascinating new biography of the Atlantic Ocean.
Bookcamp Model and The Domino Project: Returning to Action.
Bookcamps in North America started in Toronto before spreading to Vancouver, Halifax, New York City, San Francisco and elsewhere. Toronto and Vancouver happened in 2009 when the realities of the digital wave still seemed conquerable to the book publishing industry. This was pre-iPad, of course, when the inevitability of massive change had yet to [...]
Talking to Timothy Taylor about The Blue Light Project
Really interesting conversation with Timothy Taylor in his office atop the Dominion Building in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Tim’s office looks north to the mountains and east over the legendary DTES. The Cambie Hotel is directly below us and beyond it the new Woodwards complex, itself a living metaphor for much of [...]
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Every time a book comes up in conversation, your dude friends will ask “Did you listen to that on audio book?,” and then they will laugh. Less dude-like people, people less invested in making fun of you, will just cock their heads to the side and ask you why you do it. As if liking books were not enough! As if it weren’t the best thing in the world to have someone read to you! As if you had something better to do!
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