Posts Tagged ‘Margaret Atwood’
Margaret Atwood’s Backyard
While the world spent the week weeping over once-in-500-year floods, possible apocalypses, and the latest barbarisms of Donald Trump (in short it was a typical Book-of-Revelations end-of-August 7-Days-That-Were kind of week), Canada remained focused on author Margaret Atwood’s backyard. According to the nation’s journal of record, Toronto Life, “Margaret Atwood is really mad about some…
Read MoreDesperately Seeking Readers
Reading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.
Read More1989
1989 The National Book Trust administers the Booker Prize in the UK. The organization appears to be networked with everyone, with connections to anything and everything connected to books. Its motto is “inspiring a love of books.” Notice that it’s all about books, not about writers. As well as the Booker, the Trust…
Read MoreWhat To Do With the Writers’ Union of Canada
Brian Fawcett goes to the Writers’ Union of Canada AGM and doesn’t find it relevant or much fun
Read More1986
It’s February. But in the Booker Trail it’s 1986, and Robertson Davies is almost the winner. Margaret Atwood gets on the shortlist, and neither wins…
Read MoreThe Snowflake from the Snow
In Orhan Pamuk’s novel about contemporary Turkey, it’s snowing at the end of the world.
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