Book related writing
Steve Sauvé The spoken word community mourns his passing When members of the spoken word poetry community here in Ottawa talk about Steve Sauvé’s writing, and his life, the first word that pops up is “genuine.” “When you see some great performers you think, ‘I have to step up my game.’ But when you watched…
A terrifying future of Climate Wars Gwynne Dyer’s latest book takes a ruthless look at our coming world Reading Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars made me think of religious experience. As a boy I was terrified to my core at the realization of Hell: a world of unending, merciless suffering caused by my own actions in…
An author’s long journey Ottawa’s Michael Blouin launches first novel Ottawa author Mike Blouin’s journey back to his art began in the form of a letter. “Back in 1996 I left home one weekend to pick up a writer’s digest – a list of publishers. I had been receiving rejection letters one after another and…
A freehand approach to books Ottawa’s Writers Festival presents must-see reading Susan Olding’s Pathologies is a very aptly named book. It is an elegantly paced collection of essays that calmly dissect the recollections of her life with clinical thoroughness. The medical theme of the collection is drawn from memories of Olding’s father, a pathologist. “The…
The Crimson Woman Ottawa erotica writer releases her third novel The English poet and essayist Alexander Pope wrote that “A perfect judge will read each work of wit/ with the same spirit that its author writ.” It’s a valuable tool in approaching literature to try to reconcile the form of a piece with the function…
A modern monument to “Extraordinary Canadians” Penguin Canada launches a landmark undertaking to describe the Canadian soul Books: my fun, my schooling, my first, truest and only love. I write often about theatre in this paper, but, in confession, I write theatre from the vantage point of literature. Nothing in life exists until it is…