The question of why people read literature continues to perplex. The usual assumption is that people read for pleasure and, of course, reading is pleasurable. But does this mean it’s like eating chocolate? That doesn’t seem quite the right idea.
From August 30 to September 14, 1944, the 8th Hussars and the rest of their division attacked deep into Hitler’s Gothic Line defences and defeated two of the best divisions in the German Army. They wreaked havoc on enemy forces in Italy — so badly that they could not escape to fight the great Allied drive from the Normandy bridgehead to the German border.
I think the first time I thought clearly that I wanted to be a writer was when I was in elementary school and I read a poem I’d written about war aloud at the Remembrance Day assembly and it made the school librarian cry.
Bruner (1986) has argued that narrative is a mode of thinking about agents and their intentions, and how these intentions meet vicissitudes. Court cases—actual and in court-room dramas—have people constructing their own version of the story…
2:00 pm New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, 457 Queen Street (Author talk & Book Signing)
5:00 pm at East Side, 520 Queen Street (Book Signing & Art Demo)
7:00 pm at Picaroons Brewtique, 422 Queen Street (Books. Beer. Music)
Poets include Amanda Jernigan, Jeffery Donaldson, James Langer, Warren Heiti, Leigh Kotsilidis, Linda Besner, Asa Boxer, Mark Callanan, Shoshanna Wingate, Nick Thran, Anne Compton, Karen Schindler, Rhonda Douglas, Ross Leckie, the ghost of Richard Outram and many more.
In Fredericton:
September 28, 2011: Reading/Discussion
Headliner(s): Riel Nason
Featured title(s): The Town That Drowned
7:00 pm at Fredericton Public Library, 12 Carleton Street, Fredericton, NB
Come out to hear Riel read from the novel Carla Gunn (Amphibian) calls “by turns charming, humourous, and terrifying.”
