Bernard Margolisis President of the Boston Public Library (BPL). Founded in 1848, it was the first large free municipal library in the United States. Mr. Margolis has served on
the Governing Council of the 63,000-member American Library Association
(ALA), and has won many awards including “Colorado Librarian of the
Year,�? two John Cotton Dana library public relations awards, and the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ “Award of Excellence�? for his
library-sponsored “Imagination Celebration.�?
He’s also a master storyteller as you’ll find out. We talk here
about libraries as a public good, a culture of words and books designed
to help everyone improve their lives, French ventriloquist and
originator of the concept of the modern library Alexandre Vattemare
(1796-1864), the U.S. as a leader in realizing this concept,
immigration and self learning, an informed citizenry as the best
defense of liberty, democratic access to information, BPL as the first
to have a newspaper room, branch libraries and a separate children’s
room, the Red Sox and the Yankees, why the ebook hasn’t replaced the
paperback, Brewster Kahle versus
Google and the Internet archive, and the question of whether or not
information will be ‘free for all’ to improve the world.
John Wronoski is a rare book dealer who specializes in literature, and
primary works in the history of ideas in English, German, French,
Spanish, and Russian. His shop, Lame Duck Books,
contains the most significant selection of 19th and 20th century
Spanish language literature in the world, and important originals of
17th and 18th century English poetry. In addition to performing the
traditional role of bookseller, John serves as agent in the
institutional placement of archives for some of the 20th Century's most
important authors.
It is in this capacity, as literary
archives dealer, that we talk here about, among other things: the
importance of recognizing value in the rare book trade, paper
production in the lives of writers, evident spiritual input in the
process of creation, the evaluation, cataloguing, packaging and
marketing of manuscripts, the comparative value of long-hand versus
typed documents, the compatibility of pen and paper with the flow of
thought, the value of hand written/type-written correspondence versus
email, rich book dealers getting richer, Frederic Tuten's Tin Tin in the World, loosing $1 million manuscripts and adoption agencies.
(Please note the interview was conducted before the British Library purchased the Pinter archive)
Elias Khoury is author of eleven novels including Little Mountain and Gates of the City.
He is currently professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New
York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of
Beirut’s daily newspaper, An-Nahar. We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, about his latest novel in English Gate of the Sun,
of how great literature speaks to what is human and how religion
doesn’t; of how telling stories helps us to overcome death, and how
knowledge helps to overcome power; of keys, loss, hatred and love; of
how important the right to story, memory and language is to the
existence of a people; of the double tragedy of Palestine in 1948, the
real one and the fact that the telling of this catastrophe has not been
permitted; of how reading literature helps us discover ourselves and of
how literature attempts to give meaning to the meaninglessness of life.
Peter Behrens’ short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and The National Post and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays. He was born in Montreal and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son.
We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, among other things about voice and poetry in his debut novel The Law of Dreams, Winner
of The 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. It tells the
story of a young man’s struggle to survive the Great Famine in Ireland
of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the
Atlantic to Canada Fergus O’brien encounters death, violence, sexual
heat, ‘boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful
girls – all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural
catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. ‘
Think Dickens meets J.M. Coetzee.
The book has been hailed by many reputable media outlets including The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. From 1974 to 1978 she was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is not Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, but rather Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity, poetry, philosophy and humour. Many are only one or two sentences long.
We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival,
about the role of the translator, her Swann’s Way, measuring rooms
three inches at a time, becoming Proust as an actor might a character,
dialogue being more of a translation challenge than description because
speech is born of environment and times, and the goal of creating
living language that’s timeless.
Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so
doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the
topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthur’s primary
motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to pull together as
comprehensive a collection of books on clocks as can be found anywhere
in the world.
During our conversation Arthur refers to the person who restored
John Harrison’s extraordinary marine timekeepers. That person is Lt Cdr
Rupert T. Gould. His story can be found in Time Restored: The Harrison
timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything, by
Jonathan Betts. Arthure also refers to a number of ‘classic’ book on
clocks. The include: Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, and The
Watch and Clockmakers Handbook: Dictionary and Guide, both by F.J.
Britten, English Domestic Clocks by Cescinsky and Webster, and French
Clocks the World Over, by Tardy.
As for us non-technical types interested in this fascinating field Arthur recommends Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes.
C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer
who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple
recipient of the Alcuin Award
(Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent
lecturer on publishing, design and communications. A rare bird indeed,
he recently published his first novel The End of the Alphabet, and is
currently at work on his second.
We talk here about C.S. Lewis, the role of the book designer, the award winning Bedside Book of Birds, ‘thumbage,’ how the best book design is invisible, the best designers currently at work in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, published by Chatto and Windus in England, and Knopf in the U.S. as one of the best designed books in recent memory.
Bernard Margolisis President of the Boston Public Library (BPL). Founded in 1848, it was the first large free municipal library in the United States. Mr. Margolis has served on
the Governing Council of the 63,000-member American Library Association
(ALA), and has won many awards including “Colorado Librarian of the
Year,�? two John Cotton Dana library public relations awards, and the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ “Award of Excellence�? for his
library-sponsored “Imagination Celebration.�?
He’s also a master storyteller as you’ll find out. We talk here
about libraries as a public good, a culture of words and books designed
to help everyone improve their lives, French ventriloquist and
originator of the concept of the modern library Alexandre Vattemare
(1796-1864), the U.S. as a leader in realizing this concept,
immigration and self learning, an informed citizenry as the best
defense of liberty, democratic access to information, BPL as the first
to have a newspaper room, branch libraries and a separate children’s
room, the Red Sox and the Yankees, why the ebook hasn’t replaced the
paperback, Brewster Kahle versus
Google and the Internet archive, and the question of whether or not
information will be ‘free for all’ to improve the world.
John Wronoski is a rare book dealer who specializes in literature, and
primary works in the history of ideas in English, German, French,
Spanish, and Russian. His shop, Lame Duck Books,
contains the most significant selection of 19th and 20th century
Spanish language literature in the world, and important originals of
17th and 18th century English poetry. In addition to performing the
traditional role of bookseller, John serves as agent in the
institutional placement of archives for some of the 20th Century's most
important authors.
It is in this capacity, as literary
archives dealer, that we talk here about, among other things: the
importance of recognizing value in the rare book trade, paper
production in the lives of writers, evident spiritual input in the
process of creation, the evaluation, cataloguing, packaging and
marketing of manuscripts, the comparative value of long-hand versus
typed documents, the compatibility of pen and paper with the flow of
thought, the value of hand written/type-written correspondence versus
email, rich book dealers getting richer, Frederic Tuten's Tin Tin in the World, loosing $1 million manuscripts and adoption agencies.
(Please note the interview was conducted before the British Library purchased the Pinter archive)
Elias Khoury is author of eleven novels including Little Mountain and Gates of the City.
He is currently professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New
York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of
Beirut’s daily newspaper, An-Nahar. We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, about his latest novel in English Gate of the Sun,
of how great literature speaks to what is human and how religion
doesn’t; of how telling stories helps us to overcome death, and how
knowledge helps to overcome power; of keys, loss, hatred and love; of
how important the right to story, memory and language is to the
existence of a people; of the double tragedy of Palestine in 1948, the
real one and the fact that the telling of this catastrophe has not been
permitted; of how reading literature helps us discover ourselves and of
how literature attempts to give meaning to the meaninglessness of life.
Peter Behrens’ short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and The National Post and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays. He was born in Montreal and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son.
We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, among other things about voice and poetry in his debut novel The Law of Dreams, Winner
of The 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. It tells the
story of a young man’s struggle to survive the Great Famine in Ireland
of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the
Atlantic to Canada Fergus O’brien encounters death, violence, sexual
heat, ‘boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful
girls – all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural
catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. ‘
Think Dickens meets J.M. Coetzee.
The book has been hailed by many reputable media outlets including The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. From 1974 to 1978 she was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is not Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, but rather Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity, poetry, philosophy and humour. Many are only one or two sentences long.
We talk here, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival,
about the role of the translator, her Swann’s Way, measuring rooms
three inches at a time, becoming Proust as an actor might a character,
dialogue being more of a translation challenge than description because
speech is born of environment and times, and the goal of creating
living language that’s timeless.
Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so
doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the
topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthur’s primary
motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to pull together as
comprehensive a collection of books on clocks as can be found anywhere
in the world.
During our conversation Arthur refers to the person who restored
John Harrison’s extraordinary marine timekeepers. That person is Lt Cdr
Rupert T. Gould. His story can be found in Time Restored: The Harrison
timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything, by
Jonathan Betts. Arthure also refers to a number of ‘classic’ book on
clocks. The include: Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, and The
Watch and Clockmakers Handbook: Dictionary and Guide, both by F.J.
Britten, English Domestic Clocks by Cescinsky and Webster, and French
Clocks the World Over, by Tardy.
As for us non-technical types interested in this fascinating field Arthur recommends Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes.
C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer
who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple
recipient of the Alcuin Award
(Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent
lecturer on publishing, design and communications. A rare bird indeed,
he recently published his first novel The End of the Alphabet, and is
currently at work on his second.
We talk here about C.S. Lewis, the role of the book designer, the award winning Bedside Book of Birds, ‘thumbage,’ how the best book design is invisible, the best designers currently at work in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, published by Chatto and Windus in England, and Knopf in the U.S. as one of the best designed books in recent memory.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes poetry, is managing editor of the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and hosts Bywords.ca, a website invaluable to Ottawanians interested in local literary events.
We talk here about the definitions of erotica and pornography (a
common joke: “Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when
you use the whole chicken.�), red wine versus white, connecting with
and arousing readers, giving pleasure, the act, golden showers, being
bad, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, S&M, compelling characters and work as prostitution.
Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set(ISBN:0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly
annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed
descriptions of each work by Churchill, including information on
content, typography,paper, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bindings,
dust jackets, publication and printing history, translations, and
library/collection locations, plus circumstances of publication.
We talk here generally about the art of bibliography, specifically
about binding and centriod colour charts, altruism, accessibility,
building road-maps, how many bibliographers start off as disgruntled
collectors, experiencing the thrill and joy of collecting without
having to lay out the dough, bibliography as storytelling, innovative
periodical entry descriptions, errata, when to stop, how Cohen always
got it wrong, surrendering, and uncharted works bolting from the
undergrowth.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
