Month: October 2016

Weekend Updates

After the cheeky little gnome comment last week, a friend of mine sent me this bottle of beer in the mail. Considering that I wrapped up my submission to the CBC Short Story competition, perhaps a celebration is in order. It doesn’t hurt that Leonard Cohen has a new album out this weekend, Douglas Coupland has […]

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Short Story Season

The arrival of autumn finds Calgary shifting into a different literary gear. Wordfest,  which saw over 90 authors and artists this year, wraps up this weekend, and National Novel Writing Month is right around the corner.  For me, fall is mostly about digging into short stories. My regular writing routine focuses mainly on manuscripts through […]

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Summer Reading: Middlesex

My wife has been recommending that I read Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex for years – often citing it as one of her top ten favourite books of all time (because winning a Pulitzer isn’t enough for me, apparently). I’d read Eugenides’ Marriage Plot, which shocked my wife (insofar as she couldn’t believe that was the book I’d chosen to […]

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