Originally published, Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Last Saturday I did an interview on Vancouver’s Co-op Radio, with Jane Williams. What a pleasure! Jane had read ALL of the book. She had useful ideas about which sections I might read, she let me know roughly what she’d want me to talk about, AND I was invited to [...]
Originally published, Tuesday, July 7, 2009
On 25 July I’ll be talking with Jane Williams on Redeye, Co-op Radio’s
Saturday morning show, about “The English Stories.”
Co-op Radio is at 1`02.7 FM, and the interview starts at 11;10 am.
Do tune in!
Originally published, July 7, 2009
A student asked this question, at a Langara College reading in June. “Do you think an aspiring writer would do best to get a degree in literature or in Creative Writing?”
This was never a choice for me, since no such thing as a BFA or MFA in Creative Writing existed during [...]
Originally published, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The two weeks of my book tour in Ontario were — very full. Full of books, book talk, book optimism, book gloom, boxes of books, book sales, book pricing, bookstores, book reviews, book publishers, book editors, book publicists, book designers, the future of the book. . . . Cities familiar [...]