Sunday, February 7, 2010

Melissa Lee Hates Gary Kaminsky

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Quick shift: It's RRSP season, and time for some portfolio planning. Yeah, academics own stocks: give someone a $100,000 SSHRC grant and...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Michael Ondaatje Is A Prick; He Deserves Bulldog Coffee

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There's a coffee house in Toronto called the Bulldog Cafe. They make great coffee. The coffee is excellent; only don't ask for coffe...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Wisdom Of Alissa York

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For a vanity CanLit blog this thing has some devoted followers. I don't know why. I'm actually starting to question my literacy; I w...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Well, Paul Quarrington's Dead

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Paul Quarrington died last week. I'll tell a short story, and then you can surf to Amazon or Chapters and decide if you want to buy a Q...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Jerking Off to Canadian Fiction: Part I

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Christ, it's been a long time since my last post. I don't think that I trust electronic media. I find that, aside from my whining re...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

The Best Canadian Novels To Jerk Off To (or; The Best Canadian Novels To Which To Jerk Off)

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Canadian fiction's been called many things, but nothing that Ethel Wilson never heard before. I was once told by a friend that a piece o...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

What Margaret Atwood Gave Me For Christmas

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With all of my fall term exams graded, I finally have some time to reflect on 2009. Nothing really happened. I taught a bunch of kids to rea...