My latest short story, “The Mechanical Baby,” is in the current issue of Grain Magazine.
The cover: bright orange and black tangerine baby. Lovely.
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True scientific study: A mix of cold meds and wine attracts microphones and bright lights and recordings (which would also account for the scarf creature I appear to be wearing in this Now Magazine video):
IFOA throughout the decades from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.
Late Wednesday night, I wrote a blog post for the Globe & Mail books blog, In Other Words. Today, like magic, it was posted. And now I need to sleep. (Podcast of my reading on Tuesday also included.)
Poet Melanie Janisse’s take on the crime fiction (and poetry!) night: “Tales of Mystery and Indignation”.
And hey–if you didn’t see me in my pajamas the first time around, the Globe and Mail’s book blog posted my swag bag pillaging (@bookmadam always has the best ideas).
I was sick for the first part of the Festival, but I was able to catch up on all things IFOA because of the comprehensive coverage from the following fine folks (hint, hint–follow them):
Blogs
Globe & Mail: In Other Words
National Post: The Afterword
@ifoa
@booksin140
@npbooks
@boyreporter
@walrusmagazine
@itsmarkmedley
@globebooks
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“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times”
–John Berryman, “Sonnet 43,” 9-10
“Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit.
He took the midnight train going anywhere.”
–Journey
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Today is the first day of the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) in Toronto. As a local (and a reader!), I was able to hop on the streetcar on my lunch to go sign in at the Festival, which is my very first. In honour of The Peep Show event I’m a part of on Friday, October 23, 2009, I fired up ye old digital recorder to share the contents of my most awesome swag bag with y’all.
Thanks to IFOA and all of their sponsors for the fun (and generous) loot.
PS: Thanks for the tips…and the idea Book Madam. And hitting the button!
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“Procrastination seems to be an essential part of the process of putting words on blank screens,” writes Geoff Pevere in his article in the Toronto Star. A survey of 50 writers — most of whom will be at this year’s International Festival of Authors — on procrastination.
Current procrastination technique: making zucchini bread.
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After a summer of tracking urban animal effigies in real time on Twitter, I’m moving back to posting on the site proper. But don’t expect the Twitpics to go into hibernation.
If you’re new to the project, find out the angle to my own personal obsession.
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I have a new short story forthcoming in the Fall issue of Grain Magazine, which is due out in late October. Very excited about this, about Grain.
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Die Scream Die! A Musical Revue
Thursday, July 2, 2009 – 7:00pm
The Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West
Cost: PWYC, $7 suggested
Tony Burgess
Derek McCormack
Carl Wilson
Dani Couture
If you’re a fan of blunt-force trauma, you could do no better than the launch of the 17th annual Scream Literary Festival, when horror-lit luminaries Tony Burgess (Pontypool) and Derek McCormack (The Haunted Hillbilly, The Show That Smells) lead an all-singing, all-dancing musical revue like an undead Donny & Marie.
Join their alter egos Count Cormula and, um, Tony Burgess as they lead Scream Mainstage Alumni Dani Couture (Good Meat), Carl Wilson (Lets Talk About Love) and others through a ghoulish extravaganza.
Will Cormula’s vampires prevail? Will Burgess’ zombies emerge victorious? Will the Scream alumni get to read their works amidst the singing and dancing? Will the Eye Magazine Poetry Contest winner prove an innocent onstage victim in all this madness?
Find out in Die Scream Die! The Musical Revue.
Co-sponsored by Eye Weekly and Type Books.
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I’ve teamed up with fellow poet and ex-519er to put together a chapbook of writing from Essex County: Hothouse.
So, follow us to the end of the 401.
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