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Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Return of Fiction in the Google-era
When the towers came down in New York innocence was lost in North America, they say. People wanted only to read about news and features – they wanted facts, facts, facts…When was the next calamity going to happen, and where? … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, artists, Da Vinci, facts, fiction, Google, Hogwarts, literary, Scandinavia, vampires, Vatican, werewolves, writers
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Social Networking – a must-have or a time waster?
A couple of years ago, a reputable speaker at a literary conference told me that if I did not build a social networking platform I would be of no use to publishers in the future. In other words, I had … Continue reading
Less is More. Or is it?
I read a meritorious review of a novel in a national newspaper recently, which highlighted how in a single sentence the novelist describes a character’s worn trousers as containing “the urine he couldn’t cut off due to the cold, the … Continue reading
Men in Black – whose side are they on?
When I saw TV footage last weekend of the burning police cruiser in downtown Toronto, of the guys in balaclavas and black suits breaking windows of commercial establishments, and of the armour-bearing cops in black marching down familiar streets, herding … Continue reading
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Tagged balaclavas, Black, city, Enlightened Capitalism, G20, Hollywood North, Liberal Socialism, Men, Middle Way, movie, New York, Toronto
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