Tara Bryan: an exacting sense of play
“When you hold one of Tara Bryan’s books in your hands, immediately you sense a remarkable intelligence at work. For Tara, books were never just simple objects—they were journeys, they…
Tara Bryan 1953-2020
Tara Bryan was a prominent, popular, and prolific visual artist and book designer whose death in September 2020 was a true loss for the arts community here and beyond. Today…
Darren Ivany: Heave Yourself Against The Limitations
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I am an award-winning (if you rolled your eyes reading it, know that I rolled my eyes writing it) writer, actor, director,…
Ray Guy: Where the Need is Great
Percy Bysshe Shelley, of course, had much more to say about love and marriage, not all of it encouraging. He described wedlock, or at least monogamy, as “the longest journey,”…
Rae David George Guy and Goliath
Somewhere early on I decided that the only course was, perhaps, to giggle the bastards to death. That too, I soon found, was slow and steady work, like the tomcat…
Ron Crocker: Guy’s singular contribution was to weigh and measure the entitled and authoritarian politics of his time on scales of propriety and fairness.
Can you talk about your personal relationship with Ray Guy? It varied over time. I knew Ray for more than 45 years. We were closest when we were much younger,…