a delible mind

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 find [...]

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 [...]

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 [21:17m]: 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, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened [...]

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 [21:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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