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By Eric Hill • Apr 17th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, Editorial Notes, Ha Ha, Reading Horror(s)

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Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editorial Notes, From the Interweb, Happenings, News Briefs, Rants



Fredericton, my Fredericton

By Eric Hill • Oct 6th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, Editorial Notes, Essays, Rants

While it’s true that I haven’t lived in very many places… and therefore my opportunities for comparison are slim… I feel like Fredericton has more than its fair share of peculiarities that make it an alternately fascinating, wonderful, frustrating and sometimes truly fist-clenchingly dumb town. Let’s throw light on a few of them over the next few posts, shall we? OK.



New Blog Alert!!!

By Eric Hill • Aug 31st, 2010 • Category: Branta Recommends, Editorial Notes, Goose Lane Authors, Lists, Publishing


Welcome to the new blog for The Top 100 Canadian Singles book. It’s going to be released soon, on Sept. 30th, from Goose Lane Editions. It’s been two years in the making, and is sure to spark debate, conversation, and above all, lots of passionate talk about the great music of Canada.



New contact info / call for submissions

By Eric Hill • Jul 28th, 2010 • Category: Advice, Editorial Notes, Feature Post, News Briefs

Sometime during the middle part of June the Netfirms e-mail account I had been using for Branta business first swallowed all but a handful of letters then followed that trick up by kicking me out completely. So I apologize if you sent in queries or submissions or anything over that last couple of months, but that stuff appears to be in the world wide dead letter office of the web.



Pay some attention to the man behind the curtain…

By Eric Hill • May 4th, 2010 • Category: Coincidence?, Editorial Notes, Feature Post

So let’s be clear: the primary motivation for this self-exposé is neither ego nor the desire for absolution for some wrongdoing about to be discovered. I have not sinned against y’all. Purely and simply I don’t have a Feature Post to go to right now. Since early May is a transitional time for many lit types, what with finishing school terms or the commitments that go along with new books, spring deadlines and the like, tossing together something for Branta is no one’s top priority. Except for mine, of course. Although that’s not entirely true for reasons to be revealed.



Failed Brantablog Twitter Followers 2

By Eric Hill • Apr 28th, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Editorial Notes

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Please do not encourage weirdsodapop232.



Failed Brantablog Twitter Followers:

By Eric Hill • Apr 13th, 2010 • Category: Advice, Editorial Notes, From the Interweb, In Brief, Short Fiction

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Friday Morning big wheel of links.

By Eric Hill • Mar 11th, 2010 • Category: Editorial Notes, From the Interweb, In Brief, Recommended Artistic Consumption

Here are a trio of pieces for you to pass along at work today in order to seem quirky, cutting edge, thoughtful… or just like you spend too much time online. Wired’s rundown of The 10 Most Absurd Science Paper Titles… A new Edgar Allen Poe collection by Eric Mongeon… and Geist’s Artist and Writer Fund. Happy forwarding.



If a poetry book falls in the forest…

By Eric Hill • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Editorial Notes, Essays, Feature Post, Poetry, Rants

They are the forms that break new ground, use unexpected combinations to express either new ideas or long standing ones that benefit from little shocks or big pushes. They can ask big questions. They can offer researched answers. But after looking at them side by side for about a decade I’ve come to a conclusion that their root difference is: new music actively gathers to it an audience whereas poetry seems content being left alone.