Wishing us peace on earth, and all the joys of the season …
December 2022
and we’ll meet here again in 2023.
(John Lennon’s Imagine, courtesy Wikimedia.)
Art in the Time of Physical Distance: Lisa Moore
What book(s) and author(s) are you reading right now and why? I’m reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. I’ve read Tess of the D’Urbervilles three times and Far from…
Making Album Rock
BY Matthew Hollett
You can find such surprising and funny things while digging through archives. The Pilote de Terre-Neuve, published in 1869, is full of dollhouse-like illustrations of Newfoundland’s coastline, complete with tiny ships and houses. I also came across a sea captain’s letter to his daughter, in which he describes “seven little gulls recently hatched” that he is attempting to raise.
“I wanted to make sure that any story I told was a funny story”:
Part two of our conversation with Rick Mercer about his latest book, The Road Years. Did you keep a journal during the seasons of The Rick Mercer Report? I never did….