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October 21, 2014
Swans Talks Literature and Politics at the Sino-Canada Literary Forum
Organized by the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo, at Renison University College, October 25, 2014 Sino-Canada Literary Forum: Literature and Our Environment On October 25, 2014, I’m talking at the University of Waterloo which is hosting an international literary symposium entitled “A Sino-Canada Literary Forum: Literature and our Environment”. The main theme of [...]
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October 18, 2014
Why We Should Stop Worrying about Taxes and Figure Out the Best Way to Spend Them
I was struck by something Joe Cressy said last night at an informal gathering at the house of my friends, architect Robert Chang and writer Karen Connelly. Joe is pictured above with his wife Nina. He is a candidate for Ward 20 in our city election and last night he told us how he was [...]
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Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Taxes but How We Spend Them
I was struck by something Joe Cressy said last night at an informal gathering at the house of my friends, architect Robert Chang and writer Karen Connelly. Joe is pictured above with his wife Nina. He is a candidate for Ward 20 in our city election and last night he told us how he was [...]
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October 14, 2014
A Goodbye to Hotel Chelsea
My old home away from home is no more. The Hotel Chelsea is being gutted for high end condos. Unfortunately, the renovations have destroyed the old suite that used to belong to Thomas (not Tom) Wolfe, the famous American novelist from the 1930′s. That Wolfe wrote many of his novels at the Chelsea and I [...]
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October 6, 2014
Jane Urquhart hops on board the Writers’ Blog Tour
Last week, I tagged Jane Urquhart for the great Writers’ Blog Tour. Thanks to Jane for taking part and giving us a sneak peak into her writing process: #1. What am I working working on? I have recently finished a novel, The Night Stages. It is to be published in spring by McClelland and Stewart [...]
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September 4, 2014
Summer is over and I’m on the Writers’ Blog Tour
My friend, the author Lauren B. Davis has tag teamed me for the next Writers Blog Tour. This summer, I’ve been isolated on a remote rock in the Georgian Bay, away from the online world but here we go again–the digital bliss of interconnection. I’m to answer the four questions below and then ‘tag’ two [...]
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Summer is over and I’m on the CanLit Blog Hop
My friend, the author Lauren B. Davis has tag teamed me for the next CanLit Blog Hop. This summer, I’ve been isolated on a remote rock in the Georgian Bay, away from the online world but here we go again–the digital bliss of interconnection. I’m to answer the four questions below and then ‘tag’ two [...]
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May 5, 2014
The Raw Intimate Experience of Reading the New (unromantic) Romantics
Karl Ove Knausgård image by Kjetil Ree (CC BY-SA 3.0) In case you missed my deep read essay in the Globe this Saturday, here is an unedited draft: Growing older, it’s not only the wrinkles I notice, but a new sensibility created by a generation of younger writers. If I felt paranoid, their sensibility could [...]
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