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The reviewing agenda

Globe and Mail books editor Martin Levin weighs in on the controversy about the Washington Post review of John Irving's new novel. (To recap: reviewer Marianne Wiggins savaged the book in the Post, but the ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Remembering an early CanLit booster

By Leigh Anne Williams

Literature professor Gordon Roper, who died last month at the age of 93, is remembered in a Toronto Star obituary. A Peterborough native, Roper taught at the University of Chicago and then at U of ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

By Leigh Anne Williams

CBC Arts looks back at the University of British Columbia's creative writing program on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. There is, of course, a strong emphasis on the commercial glory days of the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Sexy CanLit?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sex in Canadian fiction is the angle of Peter Darbyshire's review of Stephen Marche's Raymond and Hannah on the CBC Arts website. In CanLit, Darbyshire laments, "sex is rarely a pleasurable event. Instead, it is ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Into the mythic with Pierre Berton

By Leigh Anne Williams

Geist magazine's Stephen Osborne asks why certain writers -- Pierre Berton chief among them -- have traditionally been considered tragically unhip by certain literati, despite their popular appeal. And in "certain literati" Osborne includes a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Talking CanLit sex in Vancouver

By Leigh Anne Williams

With another Vancouver International Writers Festival come and gone, The Georgia Straight runs down the highlights of the various readings, interviews, and panel discussions. For example, at a CBC Radio panel, fiction writer Natalee Caple ... Read More »

November 8, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Berton's got the munchies

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's probably safe to say that few readers of august CanLit legend Pierre Berton have ever imagined him giggling away while watching The Wizard of Oz and simultaneously listening to Dark Side of the Moon. ... Read More »

October 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

In search of the city

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his Geist column, author and literary critic Stephen Henighan laments the fact that CanLit has largely turned itself away from the subject of city life. Citing the growing importance of film as well as ... Read More »

October 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Someone's in the kitchen

By Leigh Anne Williams

If there's not already a PhD thesis on record somewhere about the bourgeois fetishization of gourmet food in contemporary Canadian fiction, there ought to be. It's long been a pet peeve of some of us ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The adults are all right

By Leigh Anne Williams

Somewhere in Noah Richler's latest Toronto Star column, there's an admiring review of Miriam Toews's new novel, A Complicated Kindness (Knopf Canada). But first there are some pokes at uppity young folks, some fond memories ... Read More »

May 3, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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Search Results by tag: CanLit

The reviewing agenda

Remembering an early CanLit booster

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

Sexy CanLit?

Into the mythic with Pierre Berton

Talking CanLit sex in Vancouver

Berton's got the munchies

In search of the city

Someone's in the kitchen

The adults are all right

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