January
8
2010
The 10 Best Books for Writers
January
8
2010
The 10 Best Books for Writers: a compilation of “the classics”, for writers, by writers, on writing.
Nov
16
2009
Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences
Nov
16
2009
Sometimes it makes me sad to realize that there are a lot of good authors out there that don’t get publishing contracts. In which case, certain other authors can get you downright depressed. You just have to laugh, I guess, to help stay sane. I refer to The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences.
Dear Mr. Brown,
I thought I’d drop you a quick little note — just a helpful little clarification that I thought you might like to receive, from one writer to another. Here it is:
Nov
11
2009
Linden MacIntyre takes home the Giller
Nov
11
2009
The 2009 Giller Prize was announced in Toronto last night — this year’s winner is CBC Fifth Estate journalist Linden MacIntyre.
Set in a tight-knit fishing community on the western shore of Cape Breton Island, The Bishop’s Man is told from the perspective of a conflicted priest whose role in the church is to cover up instances of sexual abuse. The book draws on the same milieu and many of the same characters that populated MacIntyre’s previous novel, The Long Stretch, published in 1999. (via Quill & Quire)