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In Review: The Week of March 12th
This week we continued celebrating women authors and artists, learned about the making of audiobooks, and spooked ourselves out with talk of a haunted bookshop.
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~ If you fell in love with the intimate, off-kilter stories in Zolitude (Biblioasis) like we did, you’ll want to read author Paige Cooper’s companion piece Zolitude” featuring the Top Fourteen Places to View Pain.~ We turned up the volume with publisher Playwrights Canada Press on Age of Minority.~ “By now we’re all familiar with the Brontë sisters, Vita and Virginia, Vanessa and Virginia, and others, but what is friendship like for a fairly obscure contemporary writer in the current age?” Author Shawna Lemay explores literary female friendships in her new piece “The Sponge-Cake Model of Friendship.”~ We admired the artwork of late Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook: “Annie was initially known her detailed interiors of houses in Cape Dorset. She would put in a lot of small details: people kicking off their boots, people watching tv, a little vase of flowers, a clock, the light-switches, all of which say, “we don’t live in ice houses anymore.”~ Debut novelChocolate Cherry Chai (Roseway Publishing) by Taslim Burkowicz was on our first-fiction radar this week.
We’re re-visiting Ardour (Coach House Books), an ALU oldie but goodie with the announcement that poet Nicole Brossard will receive the Violet Prize at this year’s Blue Metropolis Festival.
