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Jack Joslin / Lit Reactor

As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes.
John Gingerich / Litreactor

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.”

The Sins of Vanity (publishing)
(via Bark)

Customer: Do you have any old Elvis CDs?
Me: No, we don’t sell music, sorry. We might have a book on Elvis, though.
Customer: Would any of those come with a life size cut out of him?
Me: I doubt it, no.

Although I hadn’t yet learned about saying no to the patriarchy, I was too shy and awkward to be a princess, and I ditched the plan of becoming one altogether when I read LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. I read the Anne books so many times that I felt as at home in turn-of-the-century Prince Edward Island as in 1980s suburban north London.
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Escape to Hell is billed as a collection of short stories and essays, but most readers have found it lacking even the basic ingredients of plot or content. One of the most bizarre stories is called “The Astronaut’s Suicide.” It tells the story of an astronaut who returns to Earth from a long stay in space, finds he can’t adjust to normal life, and kills himself. It’s meant to be a children’s book.
Suzanne Merkelson/Foreign Policy