Gordon Lockheed

Gordon Lockheed is a hard-to-find Toronto writer and the editor of www.dooneyscafe.com

Long Form Thinking

By Gordon Lockheed / 2011 July 25
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Gordon Lockheed introduces a new term into his series about the book publishing industry crisis.

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Lost in the Wilderness of Nuance

By Gordon Lockheed / 2011 July 11
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Gordon Lockheed is disturbed by Johanna Skibsrud’s Giller Prize-winning The Sentimentalists, but not the way the book seemingly wishes to disturb readers.

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Scenes from the Digital Revolution #467

By Gordon Lockheed / 2011 May 16
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In accordance with our “Always glad to help a fella on the make” rules, Gordon Lockheed answers a letter.

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What’s Threatening Book Publishing in Canada?

By Gordon Lockheed / 2011 May 12
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Gordon Lockheed looks at the deep structure of the book publishing malaise, offers some provisional solutions, but sees a deeper threat emerging

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Prize Culture, David Suzuki, and Writers’ Trust

By Gordon Lockheed / 2011 March 30
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Gordon Lockheed has some leading questions about book prizes, what the Writers’ Trust is about, and why David Suzuki was given a prize for lifetime achievement as a writer..

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The book publishers’ crisis

By Gordon Lockheed / 2010 November 9
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A look at the book biz, from prizes to marketing and back again.

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Echt! My Enthusiasm Curbed:Terry Rigelhof e-talks with Gordon Lockheed about the works of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje

By Gordon Lockheed / 2010 July 23
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Gordon Lockheed conducts an electronic Interview with Terry Rigelhof about the work of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje, and their relative absence from Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984

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UCMTSU, or, The Shock Doctrine Cont’d

By Gordon Lockheed / 2010 March 29
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No, you can’t make this stuff up department.

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A New, Better Way to Read Canada’s Novels

By Gordon Lockheed / 2010 March 27
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Rigelhof on the good, the better, and the best.

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Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text

By Gordon Lockheed / 2010 March 17
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Good grief! What does it mean?

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