a delible mind

Just finishing up an email interview with a student who is studying Delible. She asked a question about the setting (why the suburb of Mississauga as opposed to the DTES) that renewed my thinking about suburbs as asocial spaces (something I thought a lot about while writing Delible). Here is part of my response:
The suburbs [...]

There’s an interview with Cormac McCarthy out. It’s been excerpted on various blogs, including Bookninja — the line specifically where he says
CM: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
which is smart and made me laugh out loud. Until [...]

Last Thursday, I had a chance to interview Charles Demers, whose book The Prescription Errors is the lastest Wayside Editions title at Insomniac Press. He was (of course) an awesome interview. Earlier this month, when interviewed at This Magazine’s blog, he had this to say:
“I know one thing I wanted was to write about an [...]

 

 Books Rational with Anne Stone #005: Charles Demers [21:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The latest Wayside Edition / Insomniac Press title is about to be launched. Charles Demers impressive debut, the Prescription Errors, is out now (locally, you can pick it up at People’s Coop, though of course amazon and others have it too). For a peek at the novel, look here or pick up the latest issue of Matrix [...]