Keep Atlantic Canada creative
byHow long before our best and brightest authors, film professionals and musicians, and perhaps worse, those we have yet to discover, head west?
Columns
Origin stories: Errol Sharpe
byPublisher and writer Errol Sharpe didn’t know he wanted to write a book until he’d already finished half the research for his first one
Read Local 2015: Meditations on motherhood, child-free living and the life in between
byI’ll admit that I was apprehensive when Carolyn suggested I choose The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood as my next book. Mother’s Day was on the horizon so this collection was a timely choice, but what business do I have reading a book about motherhood?
Why you should read a play, right now
byReading a play is a kitchen party. There’s a degree of anarchy involved where multiple voices rise and fall over the bedlam of parallel arching narratives. Be careful what you say here, anyone could be listening
Read Local 2015: A gritty, beautiful portrait of a father and son
byDarren Greer’s name will be familiar to many. His first novel, Tyler’s Cape, earned critical acclaim, while Still Life with June won the ReLit Award in 2004. His latest, Just Beneath My Skin is no exception
Origin Stories: Mark Anthony Jarman
byAuthor Mark Anthony Jarman’s whole life has been steeped in words. From his earliest days, he clearly remembers living in a house filled with books, newspapers and magazines. But as he got a little older, comics became Jarman’s “gateway drug”