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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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Yes Size Counts

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Supporting CanLit

by Marianne Ackerman
14.03.2011

Should Canadian publishers be allowed to sell off equity in search of capital? Instinctively, those of us who remember the invention of CanLit will say “No Way.” John Barber’s piece in The Globe and Mail makes a strong argument to the contrary. The total book market in Canada is a $2.8-million a year business, some [...]

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The Other Tremblay

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A Montreal Event

by Marianne Ackerman
06.03.2011

The revival of Larry Tremblay’s 1995 bombshell, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, at Espace Go, has its fans and detractors. But once again, tout le monde en parle. Author some 18 books of essays, novels and plays, Tremblay grew up in Chicoutimi. His father cheered for the Chicago Black Hawks, which may well be the key [...]

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Serious Bites

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Paris Review

by Marianne Ackerman
28.02.2011

In case you think there is no future for serious content-driven publications in this slick, bite-sized era, take a look at what’s happening at the Paris Review. Mind you, according to the Sunday Times, the new 37-yr-old publisher’s main business strategy is based on his presence at many important parties. More power to Lorin Stein. [...]

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A Terrible Beauty

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La carte et le territoire, by Michel Houellebecq, Flammarion, 428 pages. $32.

by Marianne Ackerman
25.10.2010

A new Michel Houellebecq novel is an event in Paris, where some 700 titles will appear this fall, only a few garnering critical attention. No living writer polarizes the heady French literary scene quite like the chain-smoking, 55-year old agronomical engineer-turned-novelist, poet and filmmaker. Some are outraged by his blunt lunge at touchy themes; others [...]

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Summer Duties & Bookish Intentions

by Marianne Ackerman
08.09.2010

Summer over, and I’ve opened not one of the books I so brazenly vowed (in public!) to read. Up to my ears in fixing up the farm house in which my five siblings and I were raised, none of the titles I packed seemed to make sense. They might have been written in Greek.

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Critical Reasons to Stay Home

by Marianne Ackerman
17.07.2009

In these, the dying days of empire, when decadence in art is so common as to be unremarkable, work that inspires vivid criticism deserves attention, even if it’s not great art. Case in point, Brüno.

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Everybody’s An Artist!

by Marianne Ackerman
11.07.2009

Amid the verbiage uttered over the current global economic meltdown (or cyclical dip, if you’re a classical optimist), nobody is talking about the real structural flaw in our capitalist existence: there just isn’t enough work to go around. In future, most people will have to be artists.

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