Category Archives: Reading
Fiction fights to the death
If you’ve never experienced Broken Pencil’s “Indie Writers’ Death Match,” today’s a pretty good day to take a look, as the grammar commentary and barnyard animal mentions in recent responses are delightful. At the time of writing, the two current stories are split in the polls about 50/50.
The IWDM exists in a space somewhere between [...]
Open to the World
So, like most everyone else, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about pay walls, thanks to the recent announcement that The New York Times is installing one as soon as Jan 2011. Even if you’ve never heard the term, chances are you’ve run up against a pay wall at some point, as many news-based sites [...]
Who’s Reading What
As each new issue of TNQ rolls off the press, our intrepid Postscripts Editor Amy King writes its contributors to ask what they’re reading. With a few exceptions, it seems the contributors to our Winter issue, No. 113: Matters of the Heart, are reading some pretty sombre, but powerful, stuff. Check it out—especially if [...]
Mark Your Calendar
If you live in (or anywhere close to) the Waterloo region, you should know that St. Jerome’s University, home to TNQ, has an excellent reading series. Like most people, I’m always a little intimidated at the prospect of navigating a campus new to me. However, St. Jerome’s is more like the average high school (in [...]
Re-runs Versus Re-reads
So, as I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I love tv almost as much I love books. I realized recently that my tv habits are the exact inverse of my reading habits. When someone hands me a must-read, I don’t hesitate. Yet I exercise extreme caution in adding a new tv show to my viewing [...]
a temporary madness
After a strange visit into the world of book banning, Transport Canada has announced that they’ve changed their security policy to allow books on airplanes.
If this is the first you’ve heard about it, the fellow with the boxer bomb this Christmas made airlines tighten up security against dangerous items. You know, like literature. While exceptions [...]
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