Authors
How I Keep My Tools Sharp
My latest manuscript, Black Tupelo, took me three years to complete. I worked on it every day — creatively or editorially — weekends included, for months at a time. Every once in a while I would take a break for a week or two, but never for very long; when I’m writing a novel, I [...]
THE DEATH OF JOHN UPDIKE
I’d intended to write about my next project in this blog, but something far more important came up: the death of John Updike. For any serious reader of modern American fiction, Updike is a must. His quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom (Rabbit, Run, 1960; Rabbit Redux, 1971; Rabbit Is Rich, 1981; Rabbit at [...]
Interact with Dundurn Authors
In anticipation of the many blog posts that our authors will be posting to contribute to Blog Action Day, I’d like to invite our readers to interact with these authors – or even any author not blogging.
Feel free to post comments on any of our poverty posts.
Or contribute to the dialogue by telling us your [...]
Do Not Shampoo Your Books
Last Thursday turned out to be quite an interesting day. It turned out that Toronto’s subway system had signal problems which meant that a large number of people (myself included) had to find alternative methods to getting home … in other words … walk.
Well a few of us ended up at a Shoppers Drug Mart [...]
Word on the Street
My favourite season, without a doubt, is fall. Not only do I get to break out my comfy sweaters, but I get to indulge my book buying addiction with the arrival of new Fall books (I’ve already made a list of must-haves) and Word on the Street, which occurs this Sunday, September 28Â in Toronto, Vancouver, [...]
Dundurn Authors to Speak Out On Poverty
On October 15th, 4,477 blog sites will write about issues surrounding POVERTY as part of this year’s Blog Action Day.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger [...]
A Q&A with Walter Pitman
Tell us about your book.
Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary, is a biography of Canada’s foremost choral conductor, Elmer Isler, who died just to years ago. But during that lifetime created the finest chamber choirs that Canada had ever heard and witnessed and for more than 30 years conducted Canada’s foremost large oratorio choir, the Toronto Mendelssohn [...]
