Art Beat talks to Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout, a Writer's Read guest on October 5, 2012 (mark the date!). Armantrout discusses language, how the financial crisis led to 2011's Money Shot, the poetic integration of her cancer experience, and more in this insightful clip.
Derek Beaulieu shares
“If you don’t share you don’t exist.” Derek Beaulieu September 30th at 8PM at The Sparrow (5322 Saint-Laurent Blvd.)
The 21st Century Jouissance of Mina Pam Dick’s “Delinquent”
"[A] text that reminds us that imagination lives in language, is uncontainable, fluid, reverses gravity and history, unties the knot between gender and body, assumption and consumption. Who are we? Or how many are we? Or where are we? . . . . I think Dick offers a jouissance for the 21st century—accelerate the wit, play, and bite." - Sina … Continue reading The 21st Century Jouissance of Mina Pam Dick’s “Delinquent”
Derek Beaulieu on “How To Write”
Derek Beaulieu on "How To Write"
Another taste of what's to come --- Here is an interview between author Derek Beaulieu, an upcoming Writer's Read reader, and Helen Hajnoczky of Lemon Hound on his conceptual fiction, "How To Write."
“Soft Money” and Q&A
With the announcement of Writer's Read's 2012/2013 lineup right around the corner, here is a link to a Huffington Post article in which one of our upcoming readers, Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout, shares the poem "Soft Money" and answers queries about its possible meanings.
Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti, who read in our Synapse series on November 16th, 2011, has a profile in the New Yorker and a review in the New York Times in the same week.
The future of fiction
An excerpt from Lydia Davis's amazing Master Class at Concordia in October 2011. Thanks Terry Byrnes, for the video.
Concordia’s Professional Develop Panel 2012
Professional Development Day Friday, March 9th, 2012 from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. at Concordia’s J.A. de Sève Theatre (LB-125, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). This year, two renowned journalists, Stevie Cameron and William Marsden, join forces with literary agent Chris Bucci to discuss the process of transforming an idea into a book. This panel is … Continue reading Concordia’s Professional Develop Panel 2012
Stevie Cameron at Concordia, Friday March 9th
March 9, 2012 Stevie Cameron 7:30 p.m. Henry F. Hall Building, Room H-407, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal “From On the Take to On the Farm” Award-winning investigative journalist Stevie Cameron will discuss her work and career at the Reader’s Digest Annual Lecture Series in Journalism. Cameron is author of acclaimed best sellers On … Continue reading Stevie Cameron at Concordia, Friday March 9th
Writers Read: Concordia university's reading Series 