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Serge-Patrice Thibodeau...Dans le cadre de notre chronique explorant chaque semaine une facette méconnue d'une personnalité publique, nous avons rencontré Serge-Patrice Thibodeau qui nous dévoile son amour des fossiles et sa passion des livres anciens. 
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Literature in New Brunswick. This clip is part of the "I am art" / « L'art c'est moi » social media campaign conducted by artsnb in 2012 to raise public awareness of 8 major arts disciplines. Featured literary artists: Antonine Maillet, Anne Compton, Beth Powning, Lynn Davies, David Adams Richards, Édith Bourget, John Barlow, K.V. Johansen, Dominique Breau, Nela Rio, Dominic Langlois, Gerard Beirne, Shirley Bear, Herménégilde Chiasson, Wayne Curtis.
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In a time when Game of Thrones and Harry Potter dominate pop culture’s fantasy sphere, one local author is also putting her name on the map. Sackville-based author K.V. Johansen has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her novel ‘Blackdog.’
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Joan Clark Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She says her greatest fear would be not being able to write any more. Clark has written numerous books - her early works were mostly for children and young adults. As well as short stories. But there have been novels, such as Eriksdottir, An Audience of Chairs, Lattitudes of Melt and Road to Bliss. All have won Joan Clark critical praise. But Clark has also enjoyed the role of mentor to other writers. And she’ll get to that this fall when she takes up the writer in residence position at the University of New Brunswick.
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On October 1st, 2012 ECW Press (Independent Publishers Group) will release Corey Redekop’s new novel HUSK (ISBN 9781770410329) which tells the story of Sheldon Funk, a struggling actor who dies and then turns into a zombie. Though there are terrifying moments of pure horror -Mr. Redekop is fantastic at describing scenes of blood and gore – HUSK is a hilarious novel
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The story behind the Pulitzer-winner's bittersweet, conflicted poem..
.SIX OR SEVEN YEARS AGO, my father and I were fishing the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. It's a great salmon river. We met a writer friend of his named Dave Richards, a novelist, and Dave hired a guide for us. This was a famous guide who'd taken people like Bill Clinton fishing on the Miramichi. Once we got out there into the river the guide gave us a quick lesson about how to fly-fish, how to cast. We practiced the motions, then we got our rods and started fishing. There was this almost mystical look to the river. It seemed reverent just to be quiet, going through the mist.
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Numéro Cinq is delighted to announce that Sharon McCartney's poem “Katahdin,” published in NC last July, has been selected for the 2012 edition of the annual The Best of Canadian Poetry in English. The guest editor for ...
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Why does Bella lie so much in Twilight? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? What was the reason Dark Angel was so short-lived? Poet and scholar Kathleen McConnell tackles these, and other, subjects in this collection of essays. Drawing on analysis from Freud to chaos theory, and a large body of research, McConnell starts with Pygmalion, and unravels the cultural threads that bind the way women protagonists are characterized in popular culture.
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July 29, 2012 11:09 PM
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When a person does find this, there is nothing more to find, says author David Adams Richards.
Some of the best places I’ve ever been in New Brunswick were camps in what would be considered the middle of nowhere — beside fresh waters, the Restigouche and the Miramichi, listening to salmon splash and flip in green pools beneath a soft fir bank; or hunting in autumn, in deep wood, where many will never be, listening to the sound of wind against frozen trees late on a November afternoon.
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July 30, 2012 10:49 PM
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The author Beth Powning talks to Joseph Planta about her newest book, The Sea Captain's Wife (Knopf, 2010), the sea, writing, diary-keeping, and more.
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July 29, 2012 11:00 PM
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1. Our new organization, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, has counted book reviews by gender in 14 Canadian literary publications for 2011. You’ve mentioned to me that you think it’s best to look at numbers of book reviews in aggregate, especially at smaller literary journals, and I can see your point. Why does looking at the numbers for one year worry you?
First let me say that I strongly support the establishment of this website and its initiative, and I really congratulate you, Gillian, for taking the lead in this work. It is important work and it has the potential to change editorial practices in our magazines, journals, and newspapers.
I do, however, consider it unethical to publish meaningless and perhaps misleading numbers.
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August 28, 2012 7:36 PM
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That Long, Lost Summer by Ross Leckie
It often seems that summer is about losing time. We long to be “carefree,” without a worry, to get lost on any old road, the back roads, the blacktop, the dust and gravel, the grit. Memory coalesces around these times that are both infinite and fleeting. Winter is about the cold tang; summer about the smells, of bodies, sweat, the taint of rot, the scent of flowers, of lawn clippings, car exhaust, cigarette smoke, animals of all kinds. In summer the smell of food is more redolent. So why not the smell of poetry?
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September 13, 2012 11:09 AM
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Poetry here from Irish author Gerard Beirne who attacks the notional divide between science and art head on and makes rhymes out of sines and cosines and the nature of colloidal suspensions. In ancient times Pythagoras theorized upon the nature of music and mathematics without making a distinction between the two. It is only in our day (and mostly in the popular imagination) that science, mathematics and art have drifted into a strange opposition. Perhaps it is only an ill-educated assumption that science is not beautiful. In any case, Gerard Beirne, in his new book Games of Chance: A Gambler’s Manual (Oberon Press) from which these poems are taken, makes poetry out of science and science out of poetry.
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August 29, 2012 8:18 PM
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Festival Frye 2012... FRYE JAM Hosted by Les Païens
France Daigle est née à Moncton en 1953, où elle vit toujours. Auteur d’une dizaine de romans, elle a aussi coécrit plusieurs scénarios ainsi que quatre pièces de théâtre. Elle a remporté en 1991 le prix Pascal-Poirier d’excellence en littérature, décerné par le gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick. Elle a reçu le Prix du Lieutenant-gouverneur pour l’excellence dans les arts littéraires.
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August 27, 2012 10:26 AM
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The New Brunswick Literary Times is pleased to pass on the good news that poet, journalist, and author Harry Thurston of Tidnish Bridge (and good friend of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick who has longsince earned his place in honourary NB territory!) has been nominated for another award.It was announced late last week that The Atlantic Coast, A Natural History is a finalist for the $10,000 Lane Anderson Award, which celebrates the best science writing in Canada.
The winner will be announced in Toronto on Sept. 27.
Thurston’s book received the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction at the Atlantic Book Awards in May, in St. John’s, N.L. The book is also a finalist for
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August 26, 2012 1:17 PM
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STU Alumnus Ray Fraser, BA ’64 will receive the Order of New Brunswick for his “distinct contributions to literature and New Brunswick’s cultural life.”
According to the ONB citation, Fraser is one of the most prolific and distinct voices in Atlantic Canadian literature.
A native of Chatham, Fraser attended St. Thomas University and was co-founder of the student literary magazine, Tom-Tom. After graduation, he worked in a range of professions from lab technician to high school teacher, and as an editor and freelance newspaper writer. He has lived and worked in Montreal, Paris, Dublin, Spain and New Brunswick, but his writing is centred in his Chatham upbringing and New Brunswick experiences.
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August 24, 2012 10:42 AM
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Raymond Fraser has been called “the best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades" (Farley Mowat) and “one of the most gifted writers I know” (Alden Nowlen). Fredericton-based author, poet and editor has a bevy of great works under his belt, including The Bannonbridge Musicians, The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle, When The Earth Was Flat, The Madness of Youth and Repentance Vale.
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August 23, 2012 9:32 PM
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The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) recently elected its new board of directors for 2012-13. Rayanne Brennan, Moncton, was re-elected president of the 300-member organization. She is joined on the executive by Ian LeTourneau, Fredericton, who remains as secretary and Kate Merlin, Riverview, who is staying on as treasurer. Nancy Bauer, Fredericton, will continue as honourary president.
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August 24, 2012 11:58 AM
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How does The Fiddlehead stay fresh and young? How would you describe some of the newer and surprising submissions in your latest journals?
While the Fiddlehead is the longest living Canadian literary journal and is proud of its history, its vantage point nevertheless is from the here and now, respectful as it looks over its shoulder at the past but always squinting into the future eager to catch a glimpse of it.
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July 30, 2012 11:17 PM
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World premiere of Lloyd Burritt’s Triptych - Three Songs on Three Abstract Paintings: Musical settings of poet Marilyn Lerch inspired by paintings of artist Liberia Marcuzzi. As the moving work is performed, Marcuzzi’s paintings will be projected onto the stage.
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July 29, 2012 11:17 PM
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New Brunswick author Riel Nason has won the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and Europe, for her debut novel The Town That Drowned.
The novel, set in a small community whose existence is threatened by the constrution of a nearby hydroelectric dam, was recently awarded the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award at the Atlantic Book Awards.
Nason will now compete for the overall Commonwealth Book Prize against four writers from around the world: South African author Jacques Strauss, who is nominated for The Dubious Salvation of Jack V, winner of the regional prize for Africa; Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, whose novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, will represent Asia; Alecia McKenzie of Jamaica, whose novel Sweetheart will represent the Caribbean; and Australia author Cory Taylor, whose novel Me and Mr. Booker captured the Pacific regional prize.
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July 30, 2012 10:40 PM
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Valerie Sherrard, whose novel The Glory Wind (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2010) won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction last year, says, “Rapidly making its way toward the top of my TBR pile is Lena Coakley’s Witchlanders, which I’m very much looking forward to getting into soon. I read an excerpt a while back and the prose was breathtaking, so I know this book is going to be exceptional.”
Sherrard recently read and fell in love with The Town that Drowned (Goose Lane Editions, 2011) by Riel Nason.
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July 30, 2012 11:33 PM
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An outlandishly funny, unambiguously bloody novel about fame, love, religion, politics, and appetite
It is one thing to die, alone and confused, trapped with your pants down around your ankles in the filthiest bus restroom in existence. It’s quite another thing to wake up during the autopsy, attack the coroner, and flee into the wintry streets of Toronto.
It’s not like Sheldon Funk didn’t have enough on his plate.
