a delible mind

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Inspired by Distroboto in Montreal and Outsider-art-in-a-box more locally, Capilano now has its own art- and chapbook-vending machine. The machine (which rests under a rather large and sombre-looking clown’s head) will make a brief sojourn off campus next week, stopping in briefly at Cafe Montmartre for a launch. Thereafter, the clown’s head vending machine will reside at [...]

Okay, I’m inspired by this (by way of Bookninja). When I was a kid, I read the Websters from a to zed, and now, on my Mat leave, along with working on the next novel, editing Charles Demer’s brilliant debut, and … oh, yeah, having a baby … I’m going to read the OED from cover to cover. [...]

The Relit Awards longlist is out and Delible is there, along with a lot — uh, a lot — of other great independent works. And I felt the first kick today (from W’s & my little one). An awesome day. 

REDUX: Here in Vangroovy, winter’s set in, which means rain. The current issue of the McGill News has a great review of Delible. Rita Wong and Robert Majzels have thoughtful responses up on rob mclennan’s ‘12 or 20.’ (I’m sure I should get why they’re called ’12 or 20,’ but don’t.) Can’t wait to read [...]

Zoe Whittall (author of Bottle Rocket Hearts) chose Delible as her book of the year for the Globe! — along with Elizabeth Bachinski’s Home of Sudden Service and Emily Holton’s Little Lessons in Safety. (Nice company to be in, all round.)

On Rabble, Amber Dean reflects on what the Pickton trial has and has not told us about “what really happened” to the women who were murdered. Writes Dean: I thought I was prepared that day for what I was about to hear, as I was no stranger to the circumstances surrounding the trial. But as I [...]

“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, and [...]