Mar 7, 2023
About a month ago I watched a
documentary entitled Capital in the 21st Century. It
was pretty riveting, describing much of what, and how, I've been
thinking over the past few years about the American take-over
of Canada, and the belief that the country "developed" largely
because the very rich were too lazy,...
Feb 19, 2023
Is failure an inherent part of the
writing "enterprise"? Yes, I'd say, this is undoubtedly true. If
seen, however, solely as an "exercise" in itself, does this still
hold true? I'm not quite so sure.
These are the axes along which I tread
during my conversation with Stephen Marche about
his valuable new book On...
Jan 8, 2023
My GP took off on me last year. Landed some big
gig in Geneva I think. He's a bright one. Not that I knew him very
well. Only met him twice in six years. Anyhow, I went in for my
tri-annual (once every three) check-up the other day. The nurse was
pleasant. Told me he'd been working in the same clinic for 30
years....
Jul 15, 2022
Nick Anthony is a writer, stand-up comic, and screen-writer. He's participating in this year's Prague Summer Program for Writers and his novel, tentatively entitled Two Hits of Acid in Cambodia, was just workshopped this past week.
We talk about the experience, but not before discussing magic, stand-up comedy writing;...
Jan 23, 2022
Margaret Atwood is a
Canadian novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, environmental activist,
and inventor. She has written plenty of books, many of them
prize-winners. For example, she's won "two Booker Prizes (latest in
2019, co-winner, for The Testaments), the Arthur C. Clarke
Award, the Governor General's Award, the...