John’s Picks
For John Robert Colombo and his many contributions to Canadian Literature
Everything in Retrospect
Portrait of a Potter – Frances Ward (plus Brancusi, a Japanese word & the Book of Jeremiah)
The Japanese technique of Raku is Frances Ward’s favourite way of dealing with clay, cracks, and all.
My Top Ten Canadian MoviesThe saddest story ever
"I guess I have this instinct of who cares about our family… but I think it is interesting to look at this
A Man in a Boat: Conrad Furey & Others
Living away [from Newfoundland] means I can focus on the memories more easily, there's less distraction. The years I spent growing up
Private Identities
James Joyce’s fictional character Stephen Dedalus forges his identity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by writing it.
Robert Lax
He cares for words, and remembers his friends “like a sacred duty.”
Reading as a Way of Life
I read, therefore, I am. I read in the doctor’s office, on the bus, in the bathroom.
On the 16 Occasions When I’ve felt like a Real Writer
I’m standing in front of a stone church, dark and light limestone, smooth and ridged. I have my mother’s hand-knit Aran sweater
An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes you need a foreigner or someone who feels himself to be an outsider, someone who takes nothing for granted, to see
From Global Village to Global Membrane
We have made our tools, as Marshall McLuhan said years ago, and our tools have remade us.
Shawna Lemay’s Asking
She moves for the most part in sentences, but sentences concentrated and distilled—“music at the heart of thinking” in Fred Wah’s arresting
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