‘You think this is funny?’
‘No,’ he said. ‘No it ain’t.’
I frowned. ‘You know what I think?’ But I didn’t finish. Seeing him there I felt something like despair and just couldn’t go on with it. I picked his glass up off the floor, went in, set it on the kitchen counter. Then walking on down…
Still, “I had this horrible fantasy about writers and booze,” she continues. “And of course, it’s a lie. Because although it may be true for some people that it does open up the gates of creation, there’s this line — ‘Alcohol gave me wings and it took away the sky.’ That’s exactly what it did.
(via The Trillium Conversations: Daniel Marchildon and Sandy Pool | Afterword | Arts | National Post)
Personally, I believe that time spent telling them a bedtime story is as close to heaven as we will get in this world. (via Jim Carrey to publish children’s book - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News)
We do not want to ghettoize or tokenize Canadian literature, or teach a book for its author’s origin rather than its aesthetic strength, but left alone, we do not seem to cherish that strength where indeed it can be found.
So I heard on CBC today that a mini-series adaptation of “The Book of Negroes” is going to start filming in South Africa this fall. I am so excited I can hardly even! This is one of my all-time favourite books, and I’ve written numerous papers on it both in high school and university. Plus it…
An excellent epic fantasy: The Fionavar Tapestry Book 1: The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay #TheVincioloJournal
(via On “Dear Life”: An Interview With Alice Munro : The New Yorker)
Dear Life is the best thing I have read in so long. The title isn’t “Dear Life” as you would write if you were composing a letter. Rather, it’s in reference to holding on for dear life. The stories drip of truth and I just can’t recommend reading them enough.
Amazing:
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
