The two notions – trees and memory – became entwined and led me to writing about trees and how my life has been shaped by them, shaded by them, nourished by them. I couldn’t have anticipated some of the paths I ventured down but I have to say I loved writing the individual essays and really enjoyed the process of pulling them together into a book.
As one of the oldest independent publishers in Canada, Goose Lane Editions celebrates story, ideas and cultural expressions. 26 years into it, Scriver still finds very new book a thrill. “Publishing in its most basic definition means ‘making public,’” she says. “In some ways, the print book holds and some manner defines the content….”
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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.
Posted three new interviews today on The Danforth Review, all part of the revived and revised TDR, now focused on the short story and interviews with short story writers. I have been reading new fiction submissions for a couple of weeks now, but just this morning posted the first new content on TDR in over two years, interviews with Zsuzsi Gartner, Jessica Westhead and Rebecca Rosenblum.
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I think I write so I can discern my profile within a particular experience or context. I think painting for me is less about articulating that experience and more about walking around in it – trying it on…
-Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst in The Malahat Review
I never ever start with a full-fledged idea of the story in its entirety. I start with language. Not even a whole sentence. It’s as if the writing literally flows out of my fingertips as much as out of my brain. I am wildly envious of people who are able to plan out their stories and then when they can catch a moment, they pour the whole thing onto paper in one shot.
I think the role of the writer, like the role of any artist, should be self-defined. To me it seems that the writer’s role is to look at the world and try to see what it is, and then to create something out of that investigation. A novel is an intimate form that can explore interior landscapes in a way that other forms, even film, struggle awkwardly to describe. My aim is to exploit that power.
The author will be speaking in Fredericton at the Alumni Memorial Building, 13 Bailey Dr., on the University of New Brunswick campus, on Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m.
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour is perhaps the most anticipated comic of the year. The sixth and final volume in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s beloved series hits bookstores on Tuesday. For the uninitiated, the series follows a year-in-the-life of 24-year-old Toronto slacker and wannabe rock star Scott Pilgrim, as he quests to win the heart of Ramona Flowers. To do so, he must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends, including final boss Gideon Graves.
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