So, the latest issue has a new look and so, now, does the website, which finally has its own space at matrixmagazine.org. (The piece I wrote for Rob, part of the tribute to him, has moved too).

And for anyone in the Vancouver area, I’ll be reading this Thursday in the Open Text Reading Series from the new (about to be put to press) novel, Delible. Here’s the details:

Thurs, March 22nd, 2007.
Capilano College.
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Reading followed by Q&A session.
(Cedar Bldg. Room 148)

The latest issue of Matrix is out, a tribute to Rob Allen, who died on November 3rd, last year.

The cover is a picture of Rob when he was small. At his sister’s, a week after he was gone, we all gathered and in her bedroom, she’d put on old home movies of when they were children. They had pictures of Rob in blankets, a baby. So strange, so strange to have lost your friend and see him, for the first time, so impossibly young and unmade. He was one of my closest friends, and someone I lived with, too, for many years. I’ve got a piece in it about meeting him and about losing him. I wasn’t sure I could write it. Anyway, the piece I wrote is up on the site.