Our history with…[beer]… is long and colourful. Author Ian Coutts has documented it with his new book Brew North: How Canadians Made Beer and Beer Made Canada.
Jesse Skinner/Toro Magazine
When a handy label like “Ground Zero Mosque” emerges, it’s immediately attractive to bloggers and editors because it’s short and a little provocative. And once it becomes the accepted, if inaccurate, term for the thing, then not using it means sacrificing the easy searchability of the piece you’ve written.
Andrew Price/Good Magazine Blog
Send us your tributes to P. K. Page! The Malahat Review will post a permanent tribute to P. K. Page on our website to coincide with the first anniversary of her passing on January 14, 2011. We’re looking for short pieces (anecdotes, memories, appreciations) that are between 100 and 200 words long…
via Susan Sanford Blades/The Malahat Review
Today, the BBC reports, a specialist will examine four vaults in Zurich believed to contain the last works of Franz Kafka — part of an ongoing legal battle to determine who owns the texts, and if they should be published. It’s a story that has taken many twists and turns…
Dan Duray/New York Observer
Have you seen this website, I Write Like? It’s pretty simple: You paste some text, it “analyzes” the writing, and matches it to a famous author. So who does Mel Gibson rant like? What if I told you Margaret Atwood?
Max Read/Gawker
Seattle writer takes Bulwer-Lytton prize for sentence that compares rodent’s drinking habits to a romantic kiss
Associated Press
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Paranoid Pictures
From Peter Pan to James Bond, via The Man in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and JG Ballard’s alter ego, Jim, Tony Parsons chooses his favourite literary troubled males
