Columnists
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June 06, 2015Could We Can the Cover Copy?
By Becky ToyneI’m going to tell you something about my fiction-reading habits: I always skip the cover copy. The publisher-penned description printed on the cover and used everywhere from retailers’ websites to ...
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May 29, 2015What’s Your Vision: Publish or Perish?
By Dalton Higgins & Submitted by kateburgessNote to self: forget the zeitgeist. Trends are for dolts. What I mean is that when it comes to some writers and their embrace of social media, e-book culture and new audience development there seems to ...
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August 13, 2014Pioneer Fashion Strikes Gold
By Becky ToynePost-Victorian pioneer style is in. Big beards and work boots (boys); peasant skirts and sensible-heeled ankle booties (girls); huddling in old timey, barn-board-clad bars around old-timey-branded craft ...
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October 24, 2013Writing Fatherhood
By rob mclennanWhat do we know about pregnancy1.I shall begin, by speaking. Incubate, introduce a glossary. Just on the tongue. Unpaginated.2.Something is growing, inside. Occupant. Connects whole milk to healthy industry. ...
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June 30, 2013Are You Spending More Time on Pinterest Than on Your Prose?
By Dalton HigginsAs a card-carrying member of this newer generation of entrepreneurs who believe in thoroughly cultivating all sides of our hybridized identities, I spend an equal amount of time working as a communications ...
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April 26, 2013Remixing My Book Consumption Habits
By Dalton HigginsWhile many book industry pundits have tended to focus their attention on the future of the book, bookstores and even book review sections, and justifiably so, I’ve been zoning in on the debates surrounding ...
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June 18, 2010Nights Below Front Street East
By rob mclennanThis article is a part of rob's personal essay series, "Sleeping in Toronto." Leader Lane leads south to Wellington and across Berzcy Park to Front Street East. For most of the 19th c. Front ...
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June 02, 2010Toronto the Good and Well Written
By Becky ToyneIt’s been a while since I’ve had a huge crush on a book, but on May 18, along with the civic-minded masses at Lula Lounge, I was introduced to Stroll. A smart, adventurous, literate-yet-outdoorsy ...
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April 26, 2010Canadians in New York: The Chelsea Hotel
By rob mclennanDespite parboiling myself in the shower a few times I began to like the hotel, or at least some of the residents, or denizens as some liked to call themselves. You could get high in the elevators on the ...
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January 31, 2010The CN Tower
By rob mclennanOn September 21, 2009, as others may have celebrated Leonard Cohen’s 75th birthday, there was a ceremony at the CN Tower’s Horizons Restaurant, coinciding with the release of Guinness World Records ...