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Proved on the Pulses: On the Essay and its Literary Cousins

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Language:English
Tags:Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Literature
Description:News, reviews, author interviews, and thoughts about the essay, the memoir, and other forms of literary nonfiction.
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New Reviews at Prairie Fire
I have four new reviews posted at Prairie Fire Review of Books. Most pertinent for this blog is the review of Anne Simpson’s The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness.“The Marram Grass beg...more
2009-12-28
Review of Calm Things
Here is my review of Shawna Lemay’s Calm Things, originally posted at Prairie Fire._______________________________Last week I attended a talk by Merilyn Simonds at my local library. As soon a...more
2009-12-14
Writers’ Union Chair Aims to Improve Canada Council’s Definition of Literary Nonfiction
Erna Paris, Chair of the Writers’ Union, notes in her latest letter:“Finally, we had an excellent meeting with two officers of the Canada Council about the possibility of improving the ...more
2009-12-03
An Interview with rob mclennan
rob mclennan has probably done more to put Ottawa on the literary map than anyone else alive. He writes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and literary essays; his clever blog attracts hundreds o...more
2009-12-01
Finalists for the BC Award for Canadian Nonfiction
Finalists are Ian Brown, Karen Connolly, Eric Siblin and Kenneth Whyte. Read the press release and jury comments here. And congratulations to all finalists and short-listed authors.
2009-11-27
Writers’ Trust Award
…and the nonfiction award goes to Brian Brett, for Trauma Farm. Looking forward to reading it.
2009-11-25
Zadie Smith on the Essay
…and in defence of the novel – a response to David Shields’ forthcoming Reality Hunger. Thanks to Stephen Gauer for the link, here. An interesting article.  I’ll have more to say ...more
2009-11-24
An Interview with Andrew Westoll
I met Andrew Westoll at UBC, but already knew his writing from Event, where he was a winner in the journal’s annual creative nonfiction contest in 2003. That piece eventually grew into his fi...more
2009-11-23
New History of Memoir
A New York Times review by Judith Shulevitz of Ben Yagoda’s new history of memoir. Thanks to Myrna Kostash for the link.
2009-11-21
Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction
This year’s winner is M.G. Vassanji, for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. (Doubleday Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada) The jury comments, “An utterly brilliant, evoc
2009-11-17

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Mary Novikden 12 maj

You've been busy, Shawna! Good for you,
Mary
 
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