disjunct reading series

Wednesday, July 25th at 8:00 pm at the Wired Monk Cafe
2610 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver

Reading by Anne Stone, music by Shane Krause and Jonathon Wilcke

Anne Stone’s latest novel, Delible (Insomniac Press, April 2007), tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing.

Report on Steve Lacy:

Shane Krause (Baritone saxophone) and Jonathon Wilcke (alto saxophone)

Shane and Jonathon have spent the past year researching the compositions and improvisational approaches of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. It’s about time they presented their research.

Shane Krause plays baritone saxophone along with Bflat and bass clarinet. He is a member of the bands Heartwarmongering and Halfbeard. Jonathon Wilcke is an alto saxophonist and vocalizor [sic]. He plays with Robots on Fire, the pppoetry band, and The Big Elbow. They both live in East Van.

matrix magazine
CURRENT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

The Narrative “I”: Autobiography in Film and Fiction
edited by Taien Ng-Chan

How does film and fiction fit into your life? From lurid confessionals, diary entries, screenplays and first-person accounts of historical moments (real and unreal), from the poetic to the absurd, any genre, any medium from page to screen. Matrix 78 will include a DVD anthology of short films, videos and animations to be featured with the theme section. Please send your time-based media (on NTSC DVD or as Quicktime files preferably) as well as your short fiction, comics, poetry, screenplays, essays, and art forms to:

Matrix Magazine
The Narrative “I” Issue
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., LB-658
Montreal, QC
H3G 1M8

Deadline for submissions is August 1st, 2007. Contact Taien Ng-Chan for more info or go to Matrix Magazine’s submission page.

A new review came out this morning. The Toronto Star calls Delible:

    ”… a compelling exploration of the intense, secretive world of teenagers.
    Stone has constructed a narrative that’s often wrenching. It offers no false
    comfort or tidy resolutions, but leaves a lasting mark.”

I’ll be at the Book Expo this Sunday June 10th at 1 p.m., signing books at the Publishers Group Canada Booth (#319). If you’re in Toronto, come by and say hello!

DC Books and the Canada Council present the launch of

At the Bottom of the Sky.
Peter Dubé’s new fiction collection

SPARTACUS books
Sunday, May 27th, 5 p.m.
Reading & signing
319 West Hastings (2nd floor).

EXCERPT:

“A riot. That’s what the media call it, anyway. A tumult of bodies: some uniformed and bearing truncheons, others in shorts made from second-hand fatigues, a handful with balaclavas pulled over their faces - all of them pushing and pulling, slamming into each other. In some places blood streaks across flesh. Dust clouds climb above the scene and overhead helicopters lend someone a view through them. To my left, a few women dressed in billowing print skirts remain seated, arms linked as a cop leans in, fury in his eyes and one arm outstretched towards them. I can hear the terrifying skirl of the sirens.

Zack’s hand is shaking, and all he’s doing is handing me the photograph. He remembers the afternoon as clearly as I do, I guess. His eyes are moist.”
(From At the Bottom of the Sky)

Peter Dubé is the author of the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002), the short fiction collection At the Bottom of the Sky (DC Books, 2007) and the Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001) In addition, his essays and critical writings have been widely published in journals such as CV Photo and Esse, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Occurrence and The Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University.

He is the President of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Espace Sculpture. Peter lives and works in Montreal.

for more information:
http://www.peterdube.com/

The Vancouver launch of Delible is on tomorrow night:

Friday, May 18th, 8 p.m.
Spartacus Books
319 West Hastings (2nd floor)

Come celebrate with me.

So, there’s a reading from Delible up on Trevor Cole’s wonderful site, Authors Aloud.

On the weekend, the Vancouver Sun did an interview/profile:

This Thursday, the OPEN TEXT reading series continues with Jon Paul Fiorentino reading at Capilano College at 12:30 p.m. (Cedar 140, Cap College, 2055 Purcell Way).

And Friday night (the 18th) is the Vancouver launch of Delible (Spartacus, 8 p.m.), and then on Sunday night, I’ll be doing a radio interview on Coop Radio’s Storytelling Show.

This past weekend, I read a letter from Talon Books that was so dire, the friend who showed it to me had hidden it from her partner (who has a truly stunning first book out this fall). She thought it’d depress him. Something about a big computer (named SAP) calculating book motility ….

While in Montreal for Blue Met, I met with Jeanette Kelly at All in a Weekend and was interviewed about the book. They’ve archived it here….

Highlights of Blue Metropolis:

• Seeing Francesca LoDico win the Accenti Magazine award for non fiction for her beautiful piece “The Disappearing Sicily.”
• Late night Chinese at VIPs with a lot of lovely folks, some old friends, some new. Seeing David McGimpsey, Jason Camlot, Donavan, and my lovely editor, Jon Paul Fiorentino (who was the best editor — thanks Jon).
• Dinner with Robbie Dillon and friends at a posh Sushi restaurant hidden away behind a non-descript metal door.
• Listening in on Suhayl Saadi’s interview at CBC; the man speaks like he writes, in beautifully articulate pages, ready for print. Sunday night, he joined a big and bawdy table of us for dinner.
• Seeing Nigel Thomas & Sherry Simon on a panel on writing about writers. When the panel was discussing respect for writers, Thomas said something about how a real sign of respect for writing might look something like a living wage…
• I’m in the midst of reading Claire Latremouille’s Desmond Road Book of the Dead and Catherine Kidd’s Missing the Ark (and also reading a brilliant masters thesis) and at Blue Met, I picked up a few more, among them: Language Acts (edited by Jason Camlot and Todd Swift) and At the Bottom of the Sky by Peter Dubé (who’ll be here in Vancouver to launch the book later this month).

So, Delible came off the press yesterday and Insomniac is shipping it out. I’ll see it for the first time when I arrive in Montreal for the launch at Blue Met.

This morning, Bernard Kelly had a smart review in the Gazette:

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