Monthly Archives: November 2013

I’m always curious to know what other people are reading.  I love encountering the texts they choose to read or are obsessed by or wade into or simply find themselves reading.  Reading opens onto territories at once intimate and impersonal.  To me, this is extraordinary.  Reading disentangles subjectivity from feeling and offers the lapsing of […]

“I never like to see a man in a suit, you know what I mean? A man in a suit is up to something I think. And it’s never something good. Unless he’s dead. And even then…” I’m ice fishing. Ice fishing is like a code phrase for drinking outside in the winter. “You’re saying […]

BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA.  Friday November 8 Book Launch: Strip by Andrew Binks | 6:00 p.m. | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street | Nightwood Editions presents a launch for Andrew Binks’ novel Strip | FREE Saturday November 9 OTTAWA: […]

As for Deep Too, I didn’t set out to write a book about anything in particular. In fact I didn’t set out to write a book. I started writing out some stories that happened to fall together on the subject of male washrooms – odd experiences I’ve had that were mostly funny. I used to […]