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Proust

May 21, 2010

Open Book Toronto recently asked me to complete their version of the Proust Questionnaire. They have posted my answers — which include recommendations for Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and Colony by Hugo Wilcken (more of which at a later date I think) — today.  Thank you OBTO!

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Interview at Books@Torontoist

March 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed by James Grainger, book columnist and author of The Long Slide, as part of the Books@Torontoist Litblog Spotlight series. Assuming that you don’t have anything better to do, you can read it here.

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Tales of the Unread

March 10, 2010

To commemorate the first year of The Second Pass website, editor John Williams asked a few readers to recommend their favorite out-of-print book and he very kindly (some might say charitably) asked me to contribute. I chose to write about Nova 1965-1975 by David Hillman and Harri Peccinotti, which I discovered in Jason Godfrey’s Bibliographic: [...]

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The Silver Lining Top 5

March 1, 2010

The nice folks at The Silver Lining blog — consistently one of my favourite blogs for vintage design goodness — were kind enough to ask me for a contribution to their ‘Top 5′ feature last month, and so, as of today, the top 5 books beside my bed are online for everyone to see. The [...]

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Under the Covers: Reviewing the Covers of 2009

January 27, 2010

Tonight is the BPPA‘s annual review of the best and worst book covers of the year. Sadly Alan Jones, Senior Designer at HarperCollins Canada, had to drop out at the last minute and is being replaced by Boy Wonder David A. Gee (interviewed here) and umm… me. No, I’m not quite sure what they were [...]

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