Category Archives: TNQ Recommends
Best Canadian Essays
The 2011 edition of Tightrope Books’ Best Canadian Essays is now in bookstores. This year’s edition features two fabulous essays originally published in TNQ: Caroline Adderson’s Magazine As Muse (a recurring TNQ feature) piece from issue #113, “Highlights for Children,” about (you guessed it) her love of Highlights for Children (and an early stint as [...]
I Stand Here Ironing
The New Quarterly’s blog was named, designed, and carried for most of its first year by Rosalynn Tyo, for six years TNQ’s Managing Editor. Those who loved her wryly opinionated, idiosyncratically voiced pieces on all things literary will already have made their way over to her new blog, “Reading Like a Mother,” launched as her [...]
100 Thousand Poets For Change
Beverly Akerman, whose list story, “What I’ve Prayed For” was published in Issue 114 (and later in her collection, The Meaning Of Children), wrote to tell me about 100 Thousand Poets for Change. The event intrigued me, so I asked her to tell me, and you, more about it. Take it away Beverly… Though I’ve [...]
An Optimism
A week has passed since we heard the news about Jack Layton, and I still tear up when I hear people talking about it. It’s strange. It’s easy to dismiss, as some have, our country’s conspicuous outpouring of grief as mere celebrity worship. I’ve never met the man whose death has effected me so deeply. [...]
TNQ <3s Alternatives Journal
Rae Crossman (a former TNQ fiction Editor) doesn’t know this, but he changed my fate many years ago, simply by visiting my university for a “what the heck can I do with an English degree” panel, where, incidentally, he discussed “The Wolf Project” and how great it is to work with TNQ… “The Wolf Project” [...]
Poetry Rockstar
There aren’t many poetry rockstars in the world. Obviously we’re preaching to the converted here, but you have to do something pretty freaking crazy for the general population to stand up and think, poetry is cool. Christian Bök (who, incidentally, is one of the writers in our upcoming issue) coded poetry into DNA for Pete’s [...]
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