Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Here’s a great piece in the Guardian Books blog. Thank you, Lucasta Miller. Thank you, Montaigne.
Speaking of which, check out the March 13 edition of Writers and Company, where Eleanor Wachtel interviews Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live, the first full biography of Montaigne in English in almost fifty years.
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Gets a glowing review in the Globe and Mail today.
In addition to being gardener and essayist extraordinaire, Merilyn is Artistic Director of the Kingston WritersFest, where I serve as a volunteer web editor. Stayed tuned for the introduction of our 2011 lineup in early May.
Stayed tuned also for an interview here with Merilyn.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
I just got a surprising message from Kathy Graybeal, from the State of Delaware’s Division of Libraries. My essay “Library Haunting” is featured today on their blog! I’m honoured (or should I say honored?) and delighted. Thanks to The New Quarterly, who published it first, and to the Utne Reader, for picking it up. And thanks to Kathy and the other Delaware librarians who saw fit to feature it!
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Thanks to Shawna Lemay for the link to this article, “Literary Haunts,” in The Independent, written by Woolf’s great-niece, Emma Woolf:
“In the end, perhaps it’s best to let the writer’s words speak for them. A century after she went “street-haunting” in London, you can still find Virginia out there. If I choose, I can put down my pen right now and walk to the Cock Tavern on Fleet Street. As newlyweds in 1912, Leonard and Virginia rented rooms at nearby Clifford’s Inn and took their daily meals at the Cock Tavern. The ideal place, then, for a 70th anniversary toast to Virginia Woolf.”
My essay, “Library Haunting,” is an homage of sorts to Woolf’s “Street Haunting.”
Friday, March 25th, 2011
The Utne Reader has published my excerpted essay, “Library Haunting,” online. You can find it here.
Photo Credit: Stephanie Glaros
I confess I laughed at the subtitle. But maybe it takes a Canadian to defend a great American institution these days.
