http://annestone.net Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://annestone.net/2010/01/22/peoples-coop-books/ 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 ... http://annestone.net/2009/11/26/the-asocial-suburb/ 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 ... http://annestone.net/2009/11/19/all-there-is-to-offer/ 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 ... http://annestone.net/2009/11/17/demers-on-books-rational/ 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 ... http://annestone.net/2009/11/05/charles-demers-double-book-launch/ When I read at SFU on Thursday, Mercedes Eng was there and asked a great question -- or made a great point. In distinguishing the earlier (two) novels (jacks and Hush) from the later one (Delible), I'd said something along the lines of how the earlier works had more in ... http://annestone.net/2009/10/31/the-syphilis-notebooks/ I'll be reading up the hill tomorrow: Thursday, October 29, ‘09 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Special Collections, Room 7100 WAC Bennett Library, SFU, 12:30pm to 1:30pm. http://annestone.net/2009/10/29/sfu-reading/ 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. Aaron Peck's ... http://annestone.net/2009/10/28/the-new-vancouver-issue-of-matrix-84/ 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. http://annestone.net/2009/10/25/tws-at-the-vancouver-international-writers-festival/ "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, ... http://annestone.net/2009/10/12/whom-he-took-about-everywhere/