a delible mind

I’ve been curious about the title of Spencer Susser’s short, its genesis. Wonder if it comes from the old blues song called “Make me a pallet on your floor” (there’s a Buddy Bolden version of this song ringing out through the ether; at least, that’s what Rob would say — that our voices vibrate out [...]

Spencer Susser’s short.

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Just days after Duthies Books announced its closure, this after 53 years in the business of selling books, there is a chance to save another independent bookstore. People’s Coop books is my local bookstore. They handsold Delible, as they do a lot of other books by Vancouver-based authors. Every time I drop in, I always [...]

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 [...]

Matrix 84 is out now, with a dossier on new Vancouver writing (which I co-edited with Sachiko Murakami).  Our intro: The work collected here reflects some of the ways that the Vancouver writing scene has constituted itself through ties to the visual, to social critique, and to genre-busting.

This afternoon, the eight fiction writers I’m working with at The Writers Studio take the stage at the Vancouver International Writers Festival to launch Emerge, an anthology of writing, along with the other TWS writers.

Interviews I’ve done with a number of different authors are now available as a podcast through itunes. In itunes, under “Books Rational,” there are four archived episodes (Prison Justice Day, Hiromi Goto, Jenny Sampirisi, Aaron Peck) and some upcoming, too. Or here. The newest installment is below:

Books Rational with Anne Stone #004: Prison Justice Day with Christine Lamont & Lora McElhinney [ 21:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’ll be reading at the SFU library reading series on Thursday, October 29, ’09 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Special Collections, Room 7100 WAC Bennett Library, 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Friday, August 7, 2009 8:00pm – 11:00pm Rhizome Café 317 East Broadway @ Kingsway Sliding scale $10-15. Proceeds will support The Word is Out, a women in prison news service. COAST SALISH WELCOME from Cease Wyss. MUSIC by LOUD READINGS by Lora McElhinney & Anne Stone. FILM SCREENING of Prison Town USA. In the 1990s, [...]

Dropped into Arts Rational on Coop Radio again last month, this time to interview Vancouver author Hiromi Goto, whose book Half World I so love.

Books Rational with Anne Stone #003: Hiromi Goto [ 21:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download