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Writing non-fiction’s a bitch – a truth not universally acknowledged.

– Will Aitken in This Writing Death

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Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

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What an interestingly inviting read on this mind muddled morning. Thanks! Coffee, Please?

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Noah Richler

NOTEBOOK

Two Writing Lives

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The Writing Life: Dream or Delusion?

by Marianne Ackerman
21.02.2011

Douglas Coupland and Nicolas Dickner, literary soulmates? Not surprising and yet, surprising. The author of Nikolski and Tarmac (Apocalypse for Beginners in its English translation), is a big fan of the West Coast gen-x chronicler. So we found out Sunday night at Rover’s panel discussion, The Writing Life, Dream or Delusion? when Dickner spoke enthusiastically [...]

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Idle

The Writing Life

by Noah Richler
09.02.2011

The writer Alison Pick, author of the novel Far to Go, recently posted on her Facebook page an invitation for her to do a reading, and contribute the proceeds  to the charity of her choice. Presumably, her own bank account was not a cause that qualified. Some thirty writers had commented, the last time I [...]

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Tweet Ergo Sum

The Writing Life

by Noah Richler
21.01.2011

It’s not hard to figure out why I’ve enjoyed life without a cellphone so much. I mean, let’s face it, when did you last hear anybody talk about “daydreaming”? Never. Nobody does anymore. Daydreams have been wiped out. Mugged by BlackBerry and Apple and Samsung in the 3G and now 4G back alleys. Here I [...]

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The Reckoning

The Writing Life

by Noah Richler
05.01.2011

So a year ago, when I started writing this column, I promised a blog that would say something about the practicalities of the writing life, as there are plenty of people and books and institutions who will instruct you about the creative side of things. I figure there’s not much in that regard that reading [...]

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NOTEBOOK

Douglas Coupland & Novel Thinking

by Noah Richler
01.11.2009

Recently, I attended the Banff Centre’s “Distinguished Author” Series. Douglas Coupland was the inductee, very deservedly — I think he’s one of the country’s eclectic literary geniuses (how many can there be?) — and spoke before an excited mountain crowd. (It was the second leg of the Calgary Wordfest literary festival, the 2009 edition.)

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OUR MAN IN TORONTO

Rock Openings & Launches

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07.07.2009

Newfoundland comes to Toronto. A tremendous Soulpepper opening, the other night, of David French’s Of the Fields, Lately. This is the second part of the trilogy at the heart of the playwright’s Mercer series (they amount to five, in all, and a sixth is in the works), and the third to have been produced by [...]

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