Echt! My Enthusiasm Curbed:Terry Rigelhof e-talks with Gordon Lockheed about the works of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje

Gordon Lockheed conducts an electronic Interview with Terry Rigelhof about the work of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje, and their relative absence from Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984

1976

Jean Baird posts 1976 in her Booker Prize Analysis

Germans and Indians

Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.

1975

1975 I’ve been at this project now for months, reading the shortlisted and winning books. In order to meet the demands of a prize that requires reading 100 or more books, considering the time allotted, jurors must be reading 5 or more books a week. I’m not convinced that is possible—or desirable. How do judges [...]

Albert James Nielsen, March 14, 1944-March 30, 2010

My oldest friend, Don White, forwarded an obituary to me from the Prince George Citizen the other day. It was for Butch Nielsen, a man both of us were equally close to in our formative last two years of high school and for a few years after that. Butch and I were similar in several [...]

Letter from Berlin: Ashes to Ashes

Ashes over Europe, ashes under Europe. From the skies of the continent to the burial grounds of Poland.

UCMTSU, or, The Shock Doctrine Cont’d

No, you can’t make this stuff up department.

Offended Turf

Margaret Randall at the wall in the desert.

1974

Jean Baird continues her analysis of the Booker Prize nominees, winners and juries–and provides an overview of the “Prize Culture” Canadian publishing has created.

Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text

Good grief! What does it mean?

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