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Gerard Beirne
November 14, 2012 8:32 PM
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This is a novel that begins with an instant from today’s headlines, and digs down into the marrow to explore the oldest themes we know: murder and betrayal, race and history, the brutal and chaotic forces that guide the groups we are drawn into. Nothing is one-sided in David Adams Richards’ world—even the most scheming characters have moments of grace, while the most benevolent are shown to have selfish motives, or the need to show off their goodness. All are depicted with an almost Biblical gravity, framed by an understated genius of storytelling that makes this novel at once both an utterly gripping mystery, and a vitally important document of Canada’s broken past and divided present.
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Gerard Beirne
November 14, 2012 8:20 PM
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Seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. Victoria's literary journal The Malahat Review swapped writers and content with New Brunswick's Fiddlehead journal this fall. We hear about the result on this week's State of the Arts with Jennifer Chrumka.
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Gerard Beirne
November 14, 2012 9:16 AM
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-...One major point from yesterday’s post was how MORE publishers means MORE places for MORE different kinds of writers to get published – because different editors have different preferences, therefore, the more acquiring editors out there, the more diverse CanLit will be. Today, Mike Landry extrapolates that fact to detail how more publishers means more kinds of books period. And how our regionally based independents, not all of which are in Toronto, keep cultures alive by keeping them in print. That and then some, including how a review editor curates their monthly review quota.
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Gerard Beirne
November 13, 2012 11:32 AM
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MONTRÉAL – L’auteure de Moncton France Daigle a remporté le prix littéraire du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie fiction pour son roman «Pour sûr», une oeuvre que le jury qualifie de «magistrale». Publié chez Boréal, l’ouvrage, qui fait largement place au chiac, a déjà reçu les honneurs du prix du Lieutenant-gouverneur pour l’excellence dans les arts littéraires 2011. Ce «roman monumental» ouvre une porte sur la compréhension de l’identité acadienne, a souligné le comité d’évaluation.
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Gerard Beirne
November 12, 2012 12:45 PM
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In conjunction with this year's Massey Lectures, Canada Writes is proud to bring you "Close Encounters with Science": a series of personal stories about science or technology by winners of (and finalists for) the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. This series is a collaboration between CBC and the Canada Council for the Arts. In his Close Encounter with Science, David Adams Richards remembers his first lesson in modern banking—courtesy of his four-year-old son.
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Gerard Beirne
November 9, 2012 12:58 PM
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Just under three weeks ago I found myself in Woodstock, New Brunswick as guest reader and panelist for WordsFall, the semi-annual literary festival of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. I should have written about it before now, but, honestly, by the time I got back I was pretty knackered and launchd myself into the teaching work that had begun to pile up. Even now it sort of feels like one of the best dreams I've ever had.
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Gerard Beirne
November 8, 2012 10:36 AM
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A defence of staying marginal and a chat with artist/writer RM Vaughan “Newspapers should realize that they are no longer competing with each other for “the big scoop”, but, rathe...
One exception over the last two years was the writer RM Vaughan who wrote a column for the Globe and Mail called The Exhibitionist. Vaughan is a New Brunswick boy, who conquered the Toronto art scene by his multiple-threat talents; playwright, author, poet, artist and journalist. What I liked about the Exhibitionist was that it did the unexpected a lot...
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Gerard Beirne
November 6, 2012 9:50 AM
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I recently had the opportunity to sit down with acclaimed Canadian author and current University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence Joan Clark. Our discussion moved from her early career in Alberta up to her novel-in-progress (which is set in Sussex, NB) and the state of Canadian publishing.
Joan Clark is a Member of the Order of Canada and the author of two short story collections, four novels, six novels for younger readers, and three picture books. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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Gerard Beirne
October 31, 2012 5:03 PM
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As I remember it, Mark, you were a sessional instructor at UVic and left to take a position at UNB in 1998, and Bill, you were a sessional at UNB and left to take a position at UVic in 1998 so you switched east for west and west for east. Have I got that right? Do you feel at home where you are now? BG: That’s more or less what happened, though Mark was here for a year or so after I arrived, and we became friends.
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Gerard Beirne
November 1, 2012 8:05 PM
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The latest Order of New Brunswick inductees were honoured on Wednesday... Raymond Fraser received the Order of New Brunswick for his “distinct contributions to literature and New Brunswick’s cultural life.” Watch at 0:28
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Gerard Beirne
October 26, 2012 10:47 AM
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Lynn Davies reads Cape Enrage from The Bridge that Carries the Road.
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Gerard Beirne
October 26, 2012 10:44 AM
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M. Travis Lane reads About the Size of It from Night Physics.
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Gerard Beirne
October 18, 2012 3:49 PM
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Gerard Beirne
November 14, 2012 8:33 PM
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Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place to call home. Deftly written in a deceptively unassuming style, Nason’s keen insights into human nature and the depth of human attachment to place make this novel ripple in an amber tension of light and shadow.
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Gerard Beirne
November 14, 2012 11:20 AM
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The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to a special poetry reading by Stephanie Bolster and Susan Gillis. The reading will take place on Tuesday, November 20 at 8pm in Alumni Memorial Lounge, UNB. Stephanie Bolster will read from her latest work, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, whose poems, according to one reviewer, “read like small essays, and the finest end so wonderfully, just before they end, leaving so much more said by remaining unsaid.” She is the winner of such prestigious prizes as the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.
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Gerard Beirne
November 13, 2012 6:30 PM
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The first issue of What Killed Keats features a short story by Kelly Jarman that is then examined by Micah O’Donnell Lord Byron wrote, on the topic of John Keats’s death in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, that he “did not think criticism had been so killing.” This letter, written in 1821, spurred the name of our new new zine, What Killed Keats (WKK). Both of us are English students at the University of New Brunswick; Both of us were interested in how theory either corresponds with, reacts to, or parallels the work and texts of creative writers. To explore the relationship between the author and the critic, we decided to put both genres between the covers of a single zine. The creation of the zine itself was an endeavour to see how the critic interacts with the narrative, as we worked side by side in editing and writing both the fiction and the non-fiction.
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Gerard Beirne
November 13, 2012 10:51 AM
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Goose Lane Events Goose Lane on Facebook Goose Lane on Twitter In this week's issue: Goose Lane is a magnet for awards acclaim A microbiologist looks to space Bestsellers We could build Walls with these plaudits and Drown Towns. Continuing an awards-season streak that will never end (*not a guarantee*), Goose Lane Editions is happy to announce that that we have two (2!) amazing nominations for major awards this week.
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Gerard Beirne
November 11, 2012 3:45 PM
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The path from work of fiction to film adaptation can be a circuitous one, fraught with challenges that can make the final movie a very different proposition to the original text. Even with that in mind, if I'd been asked, upon its original publication in 2006, what a movie derived from Craig Davidson's visceral, pummelling debut short story collection would look like, the last thing I would have plumped for would have been an award-winning French art-house romance flick. But so it has come to pass, directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Marion Cotillard and with a host of rave reviews and festival prizes under its belt. All of which is a fantastic excuse for Picador to republish the Canadian author's debut collection; a book that thoroughly deserves a far wider readership than it received first time around.
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Gerard Beirne
November 8, 2012 3:22 PM
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The Malahat Review, a west coast Canadian lit mag, and The Fiddlehead, Atantic Canada's International Literary Journal, collaborate on their autumn issues to create two unique and complimentary collections. The Malahat Review's issue is titled "Essential East Coast Writing" while The Fiddlehead's is "Essential West Coast Writing." The work inside comes from writers with strong connections to the regions. The editors say, "The poems, short stories, essays, interviews, and reviews they have published in these issues don’t necessarily betray an affiliation to any particular 'regional' theme, focus, or aesthetic.
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Gerard Beirne
November 6, 2012 10:22 AM
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The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to a special reading by Margot Livesey. The reading will take place on Thursday, November 8 at 8pm in Alumni Memorial Lounge, UNB. Margot Livesey will read from her seventh and latest novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. Margot has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Margot is currently a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emerson College.
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Gerard Beirne
November 2, 2012 8:05 AM
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Gerard Beirne
November 1, 2012 8:32 PM
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Raymond Fraser One of Ten to Receive Order of New Brunswick - Telegraph Journal
Ten people were presented with the Order of New Brunswick Wednesday. The new members were honoured for their social, cultural and economic contributions to the province. Raymond Fraser of Fredericton was recognized for his contributions to literature and New Brunswick’s cultural life. “I’m a patriotic New Brunswicker and I consider it quite an honour,” Fraser said in an interview in August. The 71-year-old, lauded by the province as “one of the most prolific and distinct voices in Atlantic Canadian literature,” writes primarily fiction, but he has also written two biographies and six books of poetry. Premier David Alward announced the recipients during official New Brunswick Day celebrations in Saint André this summer. “These remarkable individuals have each helped in their work, in their creativity and in giving of their time and talent to creating a strong, culturally rich and prosperous New Brunswick,” Alward said in a written statement at the time. The Order of New Brunswick was established in December of 2000 and is the highest honour the province has to offer. The province inducts roughly 10 new members each year. At present, just over 100 people have been bestowed with the honour.
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Gerard Beirne
October 26, 2012 11:52 AM
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UNB Art Centre extends an invitation to the dedication of the “Poet’s Corner of Canada”
UNB Art Centre extends an invitation to the dedication of the “Poet’s Corner of Canada” on Thursday November 1 at 4 p.m. at Jacob’s Yard, located in front of the Harriet Irving Library on campus. Originally unveiled in May 1947, the monument honors poets Bliss Carman (1861-1929), Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943) and Francis Joseph Sherman (1871-1926). Carman, Roberts and Sherman were all born in or near Fredericton, educated at UNB and buried at the city’s Forest Hill Cemetery. Milton Gregg, President of UNB states in his 1947 dedication address:
“Each [of these poets] made a distinctive contribution to the development of Canadian culture: Sir Charles G.D. Roberts by the sturdiness of his faith in Canada’s destiny and by the manly vigor and descriptive accuracy of his verse and prose; Bliss Carman by his mastery of the music of words; and Frances Sherman by the delicate sensitivity of his perceptions.” Marie Maltais, Director of the UNB Art Centre spearheaded this project as part of a larger plan to develop Jacob's Yard, the quadrangle bordered by the Harriet Irving Library, Tilley Hall, Toole Hall and Keirstead Hall. She says: “Poets' Corner was envisioned as an outdoor gathering place where students could sit in the sun and relax, professors could take their classes out on a nice day, or where readings and performances could be presented. It is also a way to reconnect with students of the past.” Earlier this year, the Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada refurbished the monument, moving it back to its current location. Intern Architect Ryan Alward of Fredericton provided the architectural drawings and Earthworks Landscape and Garden Design built and planted the space. Printmaker David Brewer will be producing a limited edition chapbook to commemorate the opening. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. For more information on the dedication of the Poet’s Corner of Canada contact Marie Maltais at (506) 453- 4623. The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus.
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Gerard Beirne
October 26, 2012 10:46 AM
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Ross Leckie reads The Lost Orphanage at Montfort from The Authority of Roses.
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Gerard Beirne
October 26, 2012 10:30 AM
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