Posted 28 June, 2007 in Jottings |
- Robert Ludlum may be dead, but Jason Bourne lives on.
- Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial prize. One of these days, I’ll get around to reading it, I swear.
- Patricia comments on a blogger who started an online petition to get the CBC to include a regular joe — specifically, him — amongst the celebrities on the 2008 Canada Reads panel. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Regular readers of this site will be aware of my feeling that literary criticism isn’t a dilletante’s game and not every opinion is deserving of equal weight, but Canada Reads isn’t really literary criticism, it’s showbiz. And besides, I’m not sure that Jim Cuddy or Steven Page are any more qualified to discuss the merits or drawbacks of Canadian fiction than is the average Canadian plucked off the street.
- Sheila Parr’s thoughts on creativity.
- A mostly negative review of Tina Brown’s new biography of Princess Diana, which was commissioned by The Spectator, then shitcanned for reasons that remain unclear, has cropped up in the Guardian.
- Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker. (via Whitlock.)
- I’m off to Vancouver for the long weekend — kind of a working mini-vacation — so posts may be sporadic until I return. I’ll try to find an Internet connection when I’m out west, but I make no promises. In the meantime, stay well, and we’ll see ya on the flipside.
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