a delible mind

“Abel de la Rue was hanged at Coulommiers in 1582; he had made a pact with a demon in spaniel’s shape and rendered his male neighbors impotent. In 1591 Léonarde Chastenet was burned alive in Poitou at the age of eighty, after confessing that she had cast spells on corn, been to the Sabbath, and [...]

It looks like I may be doing a semi-regular feature on books at Co-op Radio’s Arts Rational: Thursdays, 9-10 p.m. on CFRO 102.7. (Who better to talk books with visiting writers than a sleep-deprived new mom?) Once a month or so, if all goes accordingly, I’ll drop in to the show and review a book [...]

 

 Books Rational with Anne Stone #002: Aaron Peck.: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Books Rational with Anne Stone #001: Jenny Sampirisi: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tonight, tune into Coop Radio (102.7 fm) to hear Aaron Peck and (from Toronto, via phone) Jenny Sampirisi, talking about their new novels (sometime between 9 & 10). I’ll be interviewing Aaron on The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, and Megan Turnbull will be talking to Jenny Sampirisi about her debut, Is/Was.

Hope you can make it to the upcoming Vancouver launch of Is/Was by Jenny Sampirisi, who’ll be reading alongside Aaron Peck (from his recent debut, the Bewilderments of Bernard Willis.) 
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Cafe Montmartre – 4362 Main Street (at 28th)

About the authors:
Jenny Sampirisi is a Toronto writer and editor. She is the managing editor [...]

If you are in the Toronto area, you’ll want to attend the launch of Jenny Sampirisi’s debut novel, is/was (Insomniac Press, 2008).
Sampirisi is the second writer I’ve edited for the Wayside/Serotonin imprint (shared with JP Fiorentino). This is a tight, dense, and complex work, lovely in its use of language, and frightening in its implications. [...]

“People drive by in their nice cars and stare because, like an accident, they realize it could happen to them. So for that brief moment, they can’t take their eyes away from that person’s tragedy because for that brief moment, they understand it could be them, and for that long moment it is them, [...]

 
Please join us for the launch of …
West Coast Line 53
Representations of
Murdered and Missing Women

Edited by Anne Stone and Amber Dean
With presentations or readings by
Reg Johanson, Larissa Lai, Sachiko Murakami, Lora McElhinney, Renee Rodin, and others…
Tuesday, October 23rd at 7pm
Spartacus Books
319 West Hastings, 2nd Floor
Free! All welcome.
For more information write to westline@telus.net

Well, it was a miserable rained-out day in Vancouver, with scraggly looking and soppy wet people huddling around piles of books, covers curling in the damp. But man, hard core book people are always great to talk to (except when they’re crazy).
Stuck around for a few hours with Dan, manning the Insomniac Press table. [...]

CBC’s North by Northwest will air an interview about Delible Sunday morning between 8 & 9 a.m. (I think it’ll be archived on site later). I liked Sheryl MacKay right away. It was one of those interviews that morphs into a conversation (in a good way), the context falling away.
There have been a few new [...]

The Delible bookshort is up:
The video captures part of a really great interview Amy Logan Holmes conducted with me at Book Expo. I can see this being really useful as an intro at readings, and also, to offer anyone who picks up the book a sense of the thinking behind the novel, which is very [...]

 

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