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Responsible fiction

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Annabel Lyon, author of the short-story collection Oxygen and the new three-novella collection The Best Thing for You, ponders the relationship between literature and ethics in a recent column for Geist magazine. On one side ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Funnyman speaks

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Poet Stuart Ross is interviewed on the online litmag The Danforth Review. Ross, who published Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected last year, talks about selling leaflets and chapbooks on the streets of Toronto, ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Events

What gets read

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The literary website The Complete Review weighs in on the practice of publishers self-selecting the titles that will compete for major awards. Many prizes accept submissions only from publishers, and limit the number of titles ... Read More »

May 3, 2004 | Filed under: Events

No hip replacements?

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Where have all the hip young writers gone, wonders Ryan Bigge in the National Post. Bigge implies that once-revolutionary authors like Michael Turner, Lynn Coady, and Annabel Lyon have settled down in the suburbs of ... Read More »

April 26, 2004 | Filed under: Events