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| Url: | http://thenewcanlit.blogspot.com |
| Author(s): | Michael Bryson |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | literature, publishing, book reviews |
| Description: | A blog about the absurd business of books and struggling attempts at creating literature (whatever that is) in the 21st century's darkened digital age. Focus on Canadian literature. Special interest in short stories and un-blog-like activities. |
| Ratings |  (1 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 104 Followers |
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Does Canada Matter?
| How interesting to look back a decade later at this review. What was the crisis in 1999 that sparked such an earnest thesis? What is the crisis now?If they don't get things right in Copenhagan, the...more |
2009-12-14
The Lizard on YouTube
| A promotional video of The Lizard and Other Stories (Chaudiere Books, 2009).See also a video of me reading at the Tree Reading Series, November 24, 2009. |
2009-12-08
The Bald-Headed Hermit
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This is one of the funnest books I've ever reviewed. It remains a fixture on my shelf.[Originally appeared in The Danforth Review]*The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke: An Erotic Thesauruscom...more |
2009-11-26
Beginnings & Endings
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Ten years ago my first book, Thirteen Shades of Black & White (Turnstone Press, 1999) came out. Let's just say it wasn't a best seller.I don't often get asked about it, but I did last night, be...more |
2009-11-14
Fiction vs Fiction
| [It would please me if readers took the title to refer to Spy vs Spy]It makes me spinny, the discussion about the place of "popular fiction" within "Canadian literature."Today I discovered an artic...more |
2009-11-12
The Death of the (Canadian) Novel
| [First published in The Danforth Review, 2001]The year would have been 1990. The Wall had just fallen. The Cold War was over. I was an undergraduate studying English at the University of Waterloo, ...more |
2009-11-11
John Raulston Saul
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Canada is a Metis nation, says John Raulston Saul.He makes the startling claim in his book |
2009-10-30
Richard Van Camp
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The Moon of Letting Go (Enfield & Wizenty, 2009) is Richard Van Camp’s second short story collection and his latest work to explore (in words borrowed from the back cover) "the notion of healin...more |
2009-10-25
Trudeau, Bono, Updike
| [First published in The Danforth Review, 2006]Terroristby John UpdikeKnopf, 2006BonoIn conversation with Michka AssayasRiverhead Trade, 2006Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada...more |
2009-10-24
Leafs Jokes
| Okay, they're funny.link - http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/mapleleafs/article/713565--what-s-so-funny-about-leafs-losing-streak#comments |
2009-10-21
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