Monthly Archives: October 2009

London interview from September on a windblown rooftop, with fellow Twitterer Matt Cowan: http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSTRE59R4I820091028?sp=true.

WHITING FOUNDATION WINNERS 2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards Recipients: Jericho Brown for poetry. Jay Hopler for poetry. Adam Johnson for fiction. Rajiv Joseph for plays. Joan Kane for poetry.Michael Meyer for nonfiction. Nami Mun for fiction. Hugh Raffles for nonfiction. Salvatore … Continue reading →

New York, Part 1: Here are some rehearsal pictures from the Symphony Space nail-biter. Text can be found at: Atwood on Tour – The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/atwood-on-tour/.

Off to the Toronto Pearson airport at an ungodly hour I can’t even remember, where I ate some gruesome food item and also a naughty Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (for the energy, that’s my excuse). Once in Boston, I staggered … Continue reading →

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25552628@N08/sets/72157622645742456/show/ Click to get a photo show, thanks to Carsten Sommerfeldt of Berlin Verlag. He’s the really tall one!  More text soon.

The Pictures: The ineffable Michael Silverblatt of Bookworm at KCRW-FM; rehearsal at Royce Hall; Kathy Kurinsky and some of her decorations; the Powers behind the Scenes: Denise Leader Stoeber, Phoebe Larmore, Kathy Kurinsky, Jennifer Porzio (who works with Phoebe); Celeste … Continue reading →

DENVER, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE: October 3-7 The Pictures: Two details from splendid Brown Palace Hotel, Denver; at the Tattered Cover: Lisa Casper, Charles Stillwagon, escort Lisa Maxson; signing books for North California Indie Booksellers at San Francisco Presidio, with Random … Continue reading →

The Pictures: The Zin coffee; the AnooYoo costumed chef; SpaBinge Organics; Sally Sue at the Absolute Spa;  the Terry Fox Memorial; Alma Lee; Alma and the film crew; Sulphur Hills; Anne Murray of Nature Canada.NB Trouble uploading picures, will try … Continue reading →

The Vancouver Event, October 1, with the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival, in the St. Andrews-Wesley United Church: the Pirate Version! Why? For its swing-from-the-rigging, risk-taking, high-notes-up-aloft, one-earring jauntiness –  just look at the pictures! The first one, taken … Continue reading →