Literary Arts

Anglo writers on Montreal survival tactics

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:43 -0500

Every year, hundreds of young anglophone writers are lured to Montreal by English and creative writing programs and by the promise of living in a city with a vibrant and...

Designing poetry

TristanLaPointe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:12:38 -0500

Four Minutes To Midnight takes your words and makes them art

What do the words “radical typographic experimentation” mean to you? Nothing? Then you need to get yourself a copy of Four Minutes To Midnight (23:56). The...

No objectivity in war reporting

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:22:18 -0500

Where does censorship start? Does it begin with the government cracking down on what's allowed to be reported on? At the editor or publisher’s desk? Or does it begin and end...

Andrew Piper predicts the future of the printed word

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:15:49 -0500

Books have survived the gramophone, radio, television and the audio-book. But will they survive the iPad? Andrew Piper, an assistant professor at McGill University and a...

It’s all true

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:43:58 -0500

Jeff Miller makes the jump from zine to paperback

“When I was making the zine, I never let the impermanence of the medium change the way I wrote,” said Jeff Miller of the 15 years he spent writing his Ghost Pine zine. “I...

Zines for troubled teens

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:10:56 -0500

Concordia grad teaches workshops for at-risk youth

By her own admission, Larissa Andrusyshyn was a high school outcast, but she found her footing through writing. “Creative writing was so important for me growing up, it...

Succulent Canadian books

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:41:23 -0500

The Globe and Mail’s T.F. Rigelhof selects the best Canuck books of the past 25 years

What makes a [great book] is an author with a very persuasive voice,” said T.F. Rigelhof. “Someone who pulls you by the lapels,” he continued, reaching out and pulling...

Turning the tables on zines

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:37:53 -0500

Concordia alum Patrick Hutchinson came to Canada as a teenager in 1978, where he developed a habit of collecting singles records. He spent the following years as part of...

God gets stripped of his powers, author of his electricity

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:35:02 -0500

In self-imposed exile in Ecuador, first-time author Ian Orti is celebrating his nomination for Expozine’s Best English Book award. Orti’s debut The Olive and the...

The dykes of micropress

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:29:18 -0500

Eloisa Aquino is the brains behind The Life and Times of Butch Dykes, a trilogy of silk-screened and photocopied biography zines about lesbian musicians Chavela Vargas, JD...