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October 9, 2014 9:26 PM
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Amidst all our #octocup-ing, PRISM has also been keeping up with our literary magazine reading. Here’s Part II of our favourite fall reads from lit mags in Canada and around the world: Clara Kumaga...
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October 8, 2014 11:57 AM
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October 6, 2014 10:04 AM
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Slow down Mabel.
So we have hens, the sheep summered here ( now back to their friend's the b...
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September 27, 2014 10:47 AM
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Veteran CBC New Brunswick journalist Jacques Poitras’ new book, Irving vs. Irving: Canada’s Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won’t Tell, is a lively collection about how the Irvings run their newspapers and the…
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September 24, 2014 5:08 PM
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Goose Lane Beer from Picaroons
Brewing Literacy
Ask Picaroons about the lifeblood of a community and the answer is threefold: good conversation, good people, and good brew. Since its founding in 1995, Picaroons has been a friend to the arts in New Brunswick, and that friendship is at the core of its latest speciality ale: Page Turner, a smooth session ale with a whimsical hint of gooseberries to commemorate the 60th anniversar...y of Goose Lane Editions.
From its beginnings, Goose Lane Editions (formerly Fiddlehead Poetry Books) has been a fixture in Fredericton and in the Canadian literary landscape. Publishing literary fiction, a wide range of non-fiction, and contemporary poetry, the company has carved out a reputation of publishing challenging, award-winning books and finding fresh, new Canadian voices. Says publisher Susanne Alexander, “Publishing books requires ingenuity and creativity and an appreciation of the fact that the best literature is always local, no matter where you are.” Says creative director Julie Scriver, “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Picaroons in our anniversary year. Publishing for a national audience from Atlantic Canada has sometimes meant overcoming perceptual barriers, but a partnership such as this one demonstrates why we make Fredericton our home and why we wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
That sense of home and community is why Picaroons is happy to be part of Goose Lane’s anniversary celebrations. Says Dennis Goodwin of Picaroons, “Brewing and drinking beer go hand in hand with creative facets of life. Page Turner is our way of raising a glass to celebrate Canada's oldest independent publisher and acknowledging our love of reading and books.” That love of books is also behind the brewery’s decision to donate a portion of the proceeds from Page Turner to Laubach Literacy, a volunteer, non-profit organization that helps New Brunswick adults improve their basic reading, writing, and math skills.
Page Turner will be available at The Brewtique at 422 Queen Street, beginning October 3, coinciding with Goose Lane’s anniversary celebrations and UNB’s celebrated Poetry Weekend. It will also be available at Goose Lane’s anniversary events in Toronto on September 30 and in Fredericton on October 3.
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September 20, 2014 5:55 PM
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My old roomie (and frequent NC contributor) Mark Anthony Jarman and I are reading together at the Goose Lane Editions 60th Anniversary party in Toronto, September 30. Many others are reading, too (...
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September 16, 2014 8:05 AM
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David Adams Richards, accomplished author and St. Thomas University alumnus, will be the Irving Chair in Journalism in 2014. The award-winning writer will be on campus during the fall term to work with students, conduct a master class in non-fiction writing, and give a public lecture.
The lecture, titled “Playing the Inside Out: Integrity in the Written Word” will explore the theme of expressing truth in writing and the importance of experience and individuality. The lecture and question and answer session will take place Thursday, October 23 at 7 pm in the Kinsella Auditorium in McCain Hall.
“In the lecture, I am looking forward to speaking about the inner circles in which literary matters are discussed and literary reputations are made or broken,” said Richards.
“I will also speak of an idea prevalent when I was young—that to be a writer, one must take on the conventional and in doing so be a renegade.”
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September 15, 2014 8:10 PM
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Jeramy Dodds, Thursday, September 18, Memorial Hall, 8 pm Jeramy is Writer in Residence for 2014-2015 POETRY WEEKEND, Friday and Saturday, October 4-5, Memorial Hall, 11 am, 2pm, 8 pm Don McKay and Stevie Howell will be among the many reading on Poetry...
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September 15, 2014 8:06 PM
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Writers festival to pay tribute to Alistair MacLeod
Cape Breton Post
Other writers to be featured that night include David Adams Richards, Steven Galloway, and Anne Simpson.
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September 11, 2014 9:37 AM
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A television adaptation of Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author David Adams Richards’ latest novel, Crimes Against My Brother, is in the… Read More »
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September 4, 2014 1:22 PM
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September 2, 2014 10:23 AM
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Jeramy Dodds is UNB’s Writer in Residence for 2014-15. Jeramy Dodds grew up in Orono, Ontario, Canada. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award for poetry. […]
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August 21, 2014 3:57 PM
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First off: I never met Robin Williams. This isn't that type of story.
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October 9, 2014 9:22 PM
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Saturday night during Poetry Weekend, Zach Wells of Biblioasis was on hand to host a reception celebrating the Windsor, Ontario press' tenth anniversary. Some very dapper tote bags were on hand to ...
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October 8, 2014 11:02 AM
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October 3, 2014 5:27 PM
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By Shane Neilson Millicent Elizabeth Travis Lane was born in San Antonio, Texas on Sept. 23, 1934. As the daughter of Army/Air Force Colonel William Livingst
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September 26, 2014 1:00 PM
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September 24, 2014 1:07 PM
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September 19, 2014 8:47 PM
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La première issue de Beûgle.
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September 15, 2014 8:13 PM
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Jacques Poitras is, amongst other things, an Honourary Research Associate in the Department of English.
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September 15, 2014 8:07 PM
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September 15, 2014 8:03 PM
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This is a special year for Lorenzo, 50th Anniversary for UNB Saint John and the 40th Anniversary for the Lorenzo Society.
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September 11, 2014 9:23 AM
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September 2, 2014 10:36 AM
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My uncle Gareth Powell was a publisher in the UK for many years and had the wiliness and good fortune to publish the bestselling Harold Robbins early on in his career. He later moved to Hong Kong, and visiting him there was a highlight of my childhood. I spent many happy days wandering around the streets with his lovely amah. Later on I lived with him and my aunt Brenda at his house in Sydney, where he was both publishing and writing a column for the Sydney Morning Herald....
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August 29, 2014 2:33 PM
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Broom Broom Poems by Brecken Hancock Coach House Books, April 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1552452882 $17.95; 69pp. Reviewed by Michael Luke Benedetto Brecken Hancock’s debut book of poetry Broom Broom is brimming with poems of varying formal construction, haunting images, musical language, and endless bathtubs. Hancock often calls upon the gods of classical Greek myth—from Uranus …
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