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It is worth braving a cold February night just to watch him prance around wearing and not wearing the absent Tom’s clothing.

– Anna Fuerstenberg in Emotional Hook Misses Mark

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Chekhov for Beginners



by Natalie G.

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Don't know where you were sitting, but there were lots of laughs.

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Maria Schamis Turner

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Inside the Writer’s Mind

Blue Met Blog

by Maria Schamis Turner
26.04.2009

Daniel Mendelsohn writes with the television on. Donald Antrim “lurches” between periods of writing and not writing. Nino Ricci writes when he is not engaging in his habits, which, apparently, include playing computer games. Only Catherine Mavirikakis, the odd woman out on the Saturday afternoon panel discussion on “Why I write,” said that she writes [...]

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On Feminism, Mitterand, and Carla Bruni

Blue Met Blog

by Maria Schamis Turner
25.04.2009

“What interests me is listening to people,” announced Laure Adler, French feminist, historian, author, journalist, and, she informed us, “psychiatre manquée.” Happily for those who saw her interviewed by Radio-Canada’s Christiane Charette on Friday, Adler also likes to talk. (Close to the end of the evening she even excused: “Excusez-moi, je suis trop bavarde.”) With [...]

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Metropolis azul

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BLUE MET BLOG

by Maria Schamis Turner
24.04.2009

“Vamos a hablar de un poco de todo.” We’re going to talk about a bit of everything. There are around 25 of us at Volver, the café on avenue du Parc that has been converted into a venue for Blue Metropolis, or, in tonight’s case, Metropolis azul. This evening’s discussion is about contemporary Argentine literature. The panelists [...]

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BOOKS

Beyond Clever

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THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell, Biblioasis

by Maria Schamis Turner
04.04.2009

The Idler’s Glossary is a small book.  This is not a judgment on its contents (more on that later) — the actual book measures roughly four by six inches and is less than half an inch thick.  It is, thanks to its size and to the lovely design and illustrations by Seth (author of the [...]

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These Streets Were Made for Walking

THE WALKABLE CITY: FROM HAUSSMAN’S BOULEVARDS TO JANE JACOBS’ STREETS AND BEYOND Mary Soderstrom, Véhicule Press

by Maria Schamis Turner
28.02.2009

SOME TIME OVER THREE MILLION YEARS AGO, our early hominid ancestors began to walk upright. As a result, writes Mary Soderstrom, the bodies of modern humans are engineered for this activity. We are, quite literally, made to walk.

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The 12 Days…

An Aperture to the Cosmos

by Maria Schamis Turner
28.12.2008

YOU ARE ON THE WESTERN EDGE of the Painted Desert in Northern Arizona, 93,500 acres of colour. The sun is about to set and the light is hitting Roden Crater bringing out hues of red and black. There are over 400 craters in this place, making up the San Francisco Volcanic Field, a natural phenomenon [...]

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