![]() ![]() Through family, academia and love she tries to find a grounding. Nav Nagra: In Theory, Theoria lives through what feels like multiple lives simultaneously. Brand is a Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. ![]() In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing and was Toronto’s Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012. ![]() Her novel In Another Place, Not Here was selected as a NYT Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book by the Globe and Mail At the Full and Change of the Moon was selected a Best Book by the LA Times and What We All Long For won the Toronto Book Award. Her most recent book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize her nine others include winners of the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Dionne Brand will be at this year’s Vancouver Writer’s Festival in a number of events including Fresh Fiction on Thursday, October 18th at Revue Stage.ĭionne Brand’s literary credentials are legion. ![]() We were beyond thrilled to have an opportunity to chat with Dionne Brand about her latest novel Theory. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I have a final release from DSPP, the supernatural mystery Something Wicked This Way Comes due out on October 29. I’ve already rereleased four of the short stories I wrote in my early years with Dreamspinner. I’ve worked out a rough schedule for the school holidays for the foreseeable future so I can gradually get these books back out there. ![]() As most of you know, I teach full time and the work involved in self-publishing is not going to happen in term time. I’m planning to rerelease all these books over the next few years. The five anthologies I was part of with Dreamspinner and DSPP have already gone out of print. ![]() The Reawakening trilogy, my three Christmas novellas ( Gaudete, The Holly Groweth Green, and The Ghost of Mistletoe Lock), my ghost stories Spindrift and A Frost of Cares, my Valentines Day novella Aunt Adeline’s Bequest, and my standalone fantasy novella Lord Heliodor’s Retirement are all due to come down from the Dreamspinner and DSPP websites on October 1st and will start to disappear from other vendors after that. With that in mind, I have requested the rights back for all but one of my books. As most of you will know by now, Dreamspinner Press, who have published virtually all of my backlist, are facing significant financial difficulties. So, first and foremost, book-related news. Wow, it’s been a while and I have a lot of news to cover in one post (which is what happens after an almost two year hiatus, I guess). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His name was Genji, and he was the son of an emperor and his favorite-but low-ranking-concubine. There once was a boy born into what may have been the most unfortunate of fortunate circumstances. As the titular character, Genji is given the bulk of the novel’s attention with the lives of his lady involvements following close after in focus. The novel's fifty-four chapters cover about seventy-five years beginning with the birth of Genji, the hero, and ending after his death. ![]() Among her contemporaries, The Tale of Genji was immensely popular and had a large following consisting mostly of other ladies-in-waiting. Her life in high society lends the novel a distinctly aristocratic color largely set in the mansions and great gardens of Kyoto (the then-capital of Japan), the novel details the passions and troubles of Heian court. by a noblewoman known today as Murasaki Shikibu. Considered the world’s first true novel, The Tale of Genji was written just after 1000 A.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes - Really Strange, because Londoners are by nature and by habitat dour and discreetly anonymous. Necessity does INDEED make for STRANGE BEDFELLOWS! ![]() He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.Ĭhesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.Ĭhesterton's zany misadventures of a young believer and his erstwhile nemesis, a gloomy antiquarian atheist, eminently proves the tried and true saying. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. ![]() In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. ![]() |