This could have saved the economy, if only they’d listened!
Hey all, as everyone I know including me seems to be down with the Hamthrax or equivalent, I’m pushing this week’s meeting back one week to Monday, the 26th of October. We’\ll all be exhausted after the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, but we’ll need a drink!
Our featured speaker is Salim Jiwa, former investigative reporter for the Province, and founder of Vancouverite.com, a new hard-news site. He was the basis for the lead in the CBC series Jinnah on Crime, and he’ll be sharing his tales about being an intimate part of many of the major crime cases of our time and our city.
See you then: 7pm, Monday, October 26th at the Shebeen. Pass it on!
Michael Turner, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Another from an email, in this case the Instant Coffee email for artists in BC, which is a newish thing I’m really loving. There’s a website, too.
MICHAEL TURNER
SFU’s new Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence
Friday October 2, 7:30pm
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400Sponsored by the SFU Department of English, the Office of the SFU Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences, the Office of SFU President Michael Stevenson, and the Canada Council for the Arts.Michael Turner is an important Canadian writer and cultural figure who is well known for his novels, poetry, screen plays and art criticism. His first book of poetry, Company Town (1991) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. With Hard Core Logo (1993) and American Whiskey Bar (1997)
— both of which have been adapted to the screen — Turner moves into a mixed genre practice, creating fragmentary narratives that combine aspects of the novel, poetry and the film script. His
1999 novel The Pornographer’s Poem, published by Doubleday Canada, won the B.C. Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Award; a screen adaptation is also once again in development. His new novel, 8
x 10 (Doubleday Canada) is being launched at this event.
You’re gonna love this. At least, you’re gonna love this if you’re sick and tired of being expected to work for free. Well, if you’re sick and tired of working for free and not phased by rampant, spittle-flecked profanity. I, myself, find it’s my metier.
Frankly, after that I’d be too SCARED not to pay him.
