“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
—Muhammad Ali
September 2011
33 posts
“Get these fucking nuns away from me.”
—Last words of Norman Douglas, author of South Wind.
August 2011
51 posts
The Literary Industrial Complex
Defining THE LITERARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX:
“In essence, ‘barbarians’ with MBAs pierced the sacred veil, breached the protected gates, and are now in the boardrooms controlling what we read and think.” - Albert N. Greco, The Book Publishing Industry, Second Edition, 2005.
(Just a glimpse into the research I’m doing these days. Love the phrase.)
Chuck Klosterman article about DVRs and sports games →
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BTW http://www.grantland.com/ is a really awesome place for long form sports articles.
Sarah Selecky gave us a shout out!
2010 Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky gave us a shout out in her newsletter/on her blog!
p.s. — A couple of new online story mags doing cool stuff: Dragnet, where you get a beautiful touch of the handmade along with your digital reading, and Found Press - where you can download stories one by one for your ereader, or buy the whole issue at once. (I recommend Obscure Objects by Caroline Adderson.)
p.p.s. — it happens to be Year of the Short Story this year. Click here to read the YOSS Manifesto.
Listen
Odourless Radio posted a recording of Dragnet friends Justin Million and Leah Mol reading at the launch of their new chapbooks on Dragnet friend Cameron Anstee’s Apt. 9 Press:
Show: Last Hurrah at Raw Sugar
Broadcast: August 25, 2011 | 6:30 PM | CKCU 93.1FM
Featured Voices: Cameron Anstee, Justin Million, Leah Mol
Featured Music: Timber Timbre – “Oh Messiah”, Urge Overkill – “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon”
Links: Apt. 9 Press | Raw Sugar Cafe
Description:
The August 24 reading and book launch at Raw Sugar Cafe, hosted by Mr. Anstee and Apt. 9 Press, was a night of both celebration and mourning. Literary friends and family gathered in Raw Sugar’s embracing, Cold War-era furniture to drink Beau’s and say bye to Mr. Million and Ms. Mol, who are moving to Vancouver for bigger things, and Apt. 9, who is entering a brief hiatus after two years and 984 hand-stitched books.
Dragnet Issue Three Cover Artist Ian John Turner's Tribute to Jack Layton →
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jack, ripnot everyone agreed with him, but there aren’t a whole wack who didn’t respect him
