tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26641419087634670582024-03-05T16:23:32.537-08:00DESK SPACEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-3721354471922116502013-05-28T10:54:00.001-07:002013-05-28T10:54:36.520-07:00COME, DO THIS WITH ME<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AN-WRVCTB4VGkRY_jFyY5oxAMdo82v4XwAnRLe38ETv427i-DNeXSMER0v74fBZreXE7UzwiINFXowRhmRlbSVP9aOdQGFrc00YzIrg6CDUvwC_y9fUp31D2dECi_gu19uXuGtymLGA/s1600/dying63.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AN-WRVCTB4VGkRY_jFyY5oxAMdo82v4XwAnRLe38ETv427i-DNeXSMER0v74fBZreXE7UzwiINFXowRhmRlbSVP9aOdQGFrc00YzIrg6CDUvwC_y9fUp31D2dECi_gu19uXuGtymLGA/s320/dying63.jpg" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-75072410318338457832011-04-12T22:48:00.000-07:002011-04-13T10:32:44.590-07:00MARC DI SAVERIO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/YDv346yVXFA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>--<i>Marc Di Saverio reading "Orphaestus" at his book launch at the Black Swan in December</i></strong></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><br />
</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">DESK SPACE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"> Who (a one-liner or a bio)?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">MARC DI SAVERIO: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"> Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, I'm a McMaster English-History student, poet, essayist, translator (of English, French and Japanese poetry) </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and the author of <i>the Manifesto of Mortarism</i>, which partially appeared in<i> <a href="http://maisonneuve.org/">Maisonneuve</a></i> (Innovation/Progress Issue). My translations, poems, art, and theory-related work have appeared in <i>Maisonneuve</i>, <i>The Dalhousie Review, Toronto Quarterly, Modern Haiku, <a href="http://jimjohnstone.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/michael-lista-literary-magazines-and-the-future-of-mm/">Misunderstandings Magazine</a></i> (wherein an interview is forthcoming),<i> Magnapoets, Frog Pond </i>(haiku journal), and <i>Moonset </i>(where I was featured poet). I am also the language editor of the great Serbian haijin Slavko Sedlar’s SUCHNESS 2 and SUCHNESS 3, an extraordinary honor because I have always admired and adored his haiku. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In December, 2010, I launched my chapbook <em>Sanatorium Songs</em> with <a href="http://www.cactuspress.blogspot.com/">Cactus Press</a>. The book will be reviewed by <a href="http://voxpopulism.wordpress.com/">Jacob McArthur Mooney</a> in the <a href="http://www.northernpoetryreview.com/">Northern Poetry Review</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Lampert_Award">Michael Lista</a> will be publishing an article on my work in the "Afterword" of the National Post. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moreover, I am a Psychiatry-enthusiast, mental health activist, chronic thinker, amateur composer of classical music, and an aesthete.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I also consider myself an inventor. I have invented a new form of poetry/photography, and also a method enabling one to read objects as musical notes. The new form of poetry is </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">called Verso D’Oggetti, or Verse of Objects, or objectverse, which involves reading syllables as objects. For instance, a haiku of objects would involve 17 objects. See for yourself below. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">You may want to see these two prior interviews, one with </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.statemaster.http//simplyhaiku.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/marc-di-saverio-int-rdw/com/encyclopedia/Mortarism">Curtis Dunlap of <em>Tobacco Road</em></a>, and the other with <a href="http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2009/07/marc-di-saverio-three-questions.html">Robert B. Wilson of <em>Simply Haiku</em></a>.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">DS: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">When did you start writing or publish your first book (or when are you publishing your next)?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">MdS: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">I started writing <em><a href="http://jimjohnstone.wordpress.com/cactus-press/">Sanatorium Songs</a>, </em>my first chapbook, while in hospital, around 2006.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">DS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"> Where do you write (at your desk/outside/in bed)?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">MdS: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">I write in many different places, but my two favorite places are my writing shed (complete with skylight, couch, desk, library, and heating and air conditioning). I also love working at my girlfriend Diane’s house, where she has a lovely writing table in her dining room.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I also enjoy working at the Mountain Brow, especially at the the top of Princess Falls, aka “the waterfall”, which is just off of the Bruce Trails, on Scenic Drive.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><br />
</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">DS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"> Why do you work where you do (at your desk because it is a quiet space/outside b/c it helps you think/in the park b/c you can smoke, etc)?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong>MdS </strong>Where I work depends on how I am feeling. If I am in a manic state I prefer composing along on my walking tours through the city, or in the parks and the forests. When I am in a depressive state I prefer writing in the shed, where I feel most comfortable and relaxed.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
<b>DS</b> What was the last book you read?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US">MdS </span></b><span lang="EN-US">The last book I read was <em><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=706">The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers</a></em>. I learned <em>a lot</em>about free verse and the long line from Jeffers, an extraordinary, expansive poet.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';"><br />
</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">DS </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #331a00; font-family: 'Georgia Serif';">what are you working on now?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #331a00;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>MdS</strong> Now I am </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">working on <em>Orphaestus</em>, my debut full-length book of poetry, and <em>the Daughter of God</em>, my first novel. I am also working with <a href="http://www.artlocal21.com/">Cassandra Cronenberg</a> and Ryan Preston on feature film projects.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b>Carleton Wilson for DESK SPACE:</b> I recorded the following poems while at St. Michael's Hospital for IV antibiotics to help a lung infection. Please forgive the quality of voice on the recording.<br />
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Carleton Wilson reads Ligature:<br />
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Carleton Wilson reads Rumi:<br />
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Carleton Wilson reads Coughing Blood:<br />
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<b>Rachel Lebowitz for DESK SPACE</b><br />
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<b>DESK SPACE</b> Who (a one-liner or a bio)?<br />
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<b>RACHEL LEBOWITZ</b> Mother, writer. First book, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Hannus-Rachel-Lebowitz/dp/1897141114">Hannus</a>, was <a href="http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/index.php?/winners/details/hannus/">shortlisted for a BC book prize</a> and the Edna Staebler A<a href="http://libserve.wlu.ca/internet/prizes/staebler.html">ward for Creative Non-Fiction</a>. Second book, <a href="http://www.biblioasis.com/zachariah-wells/anything-but-hank">Anything but Hank!</a> (co-written by <a href="http://zachariahwells.blogspot.com/">Zach Wells</a> and illustrated by <a href="http://www.ericorchard.blogspot.com/">Eric Orchard</a>) is apparently “the best book ever!” according to a kid who heard us read from it last year. Third book is in progress. <br />
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<b>DS</b> When did you start writing, publish your first book (or when are you publishing your next)?<br />
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<b>RL</b> In grade 1 maybe? By the age of 8, I had ditched my early dreams of owning a bakery in favour of being a writer. And I wrote lots of poems then. Apparently, love is good to everyone, even if you weigh a tonne. Who knew?<br />
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I published my first book, Hannus, with Pedlar Press in 2006. Hoping to publish the next book in 2012 or so but I have to finish it first. <br />
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<b>DS</b> Where do you write (at your desk/outside/in bed)?<br />
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<b>RL</b> My writing process is two-fold. Because the work I do (especially for my latest project) is so research-based, I tend to just get comfortable and do a lot of research in the livingroom. I read lots and use lots of sticky notes. Then eventually I wander over to my desk (in the corner of the dining room) and type up those notes and do more research online and write. <br />
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<b>DS</b> Why do you work where you do (at your desk because it is a quiet space/outside b/c it helps you think/in the park b/c you can smoke, etc)?<br />
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<b>RL</b> I work at home, alone, a couple days a week while my son is at daycare. I can't focus on my writing in public spaces. Also, I always read my writing out loud while I'm working and feel self-conscious if anyone else is around. Rhythm is very important to me and that's the best way for me to hear it (or lack thereof). <br />
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I used to write on paper but I can't do it anymore. For one thing, I do so much research that I need the internet to do quick searches on something – often right in the middle of writing. It could be an image search or the line from some poet that I need to check, or a map of England or facts about cockroaches or coral reefs. I can't imagine writing without google. For another, I'm a really slow and picky writer. It's picking up now, but it's not unusual for me to write one poem a year. However, those pieces do tend to come out fairly finished – I edit as I go along. I can't write another sentence if I know there are problems with the first one – and seeing all those scratched out lines on paper just depresses me and makes me feel like I'm not going anywhere. So the delete and enter keys are my friends!<br />
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<b>DS</b> What is the last book you read (or what are you reading)?<br />
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<b>RL</b> <a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=1189360&searchString=orlando">Orlando! </a> I just started a book club and we're focusing on various classic works we've never got around to reading. It's pretty exciting. Sometimes I feel like all Canadian writers do is read each other's work or the next big thing. I want to get away from that for awhile. Also, these days I'm reading lots of nursery rhymes to my son and I'm finding them pretty inspiring for my own work.<br />
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<b>DS</b> What are you working on now?<br />
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RL Cottonopolis – a book of prose poems about the Industrial Revolution, specifically the cotton industry, mostly focusing on Manchester. Slavery, empire, child labour, Luddites, American civil war, etc. It's pretty huge and terrifying and exhilarating.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-21010931369856233642010-12-10T10:23:00.000-08:002010-12-10T10:30:45.485-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCI3ryFm-zi2_dc2RAPC4lrQV7cBiLEL1gvFI6nAia5_rHnEBOIn3gLTEOkhrux-X5W-sTa1gnz6wdKcryNym2B5YB6JwfifIDNR5MfMO9qUd-WwEYVL1VJsvKhEmq98zZX2HBI8Py6w/s1600/DS+Kane+SNOWGLOBE.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCI3ryFm-zi2_dc2RAPC4lrQV7cBiLEL1gvFI6nAia5_rHnEBOIn3gLTEOkhrux-X5W-sTa1gnz6wdKcryNym2B5YB6JwfifIDNR5MfMO9qUd-WwEYVL1VJsvKhEmq98zZX2HBI8Py6w/s400/DS+Kane+SNOWGLOBE.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549122828656333666" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-33830065849431803812010-06-20T09:57:00.000-07:002010-06-25T06:50:04.339-07:00ROSALYNN TYO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKvVFCSHx9ziTzw5qTc52_v-ra3dGx69_Xu_iQ7tCwbDL_AaJdRFhrONRHx7Bk-ukeyvi8MpbzXDAFghvAhfk_th9jx5FVK_Mk7AiZ2CrWEIxRZ-3iKzU3LjhXIwH2r1FSVc54v2qEG8/s1600/100_0367.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKvVFCSHx9ziTzw5qTc52_v-ra3dGx69_Xu_iQ7tCwbDL_AaJdRFhrONRHx7Bk-ukeyvi8MpbzXDAFghvAhfk_th9jx5FVK_Mk7AiZ2CrWEIxRZ-3iKzU3LjhXIwH2r1FSVc54v2qEG8/s400/100_0367.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484903253883615794" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DESK SPACE</span> Who (a one-liner or a bio)? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">ROSALYNN TYO</span> Rosalynn Tyo, Managing Editor of <a href="http://www.tnq.ca/">The New Quarterly</a>: Canadian Writers & Writing, Blogger-in-chief for the literary type, <a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=4644">writer (some day) of magazine </a>articles and personal essays.<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS </span>When did you become interested in literature and the publishing industry?<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT </span>I can't really remember a time when I didn't love books. My mother is a great reader; she taught me to read before I went to kindergarten, which meant, on the first day anyway, I was the smartest kid in class. I think my fate was sealed sometime in between recess and snack. But my memories of this period are pretty vague.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Where do you work/edit (at your desk/outside/in bed)? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT</span> Most of my day time hours are in <a href="http://www.tnq.ca/magazine/current_issue/">The New Quarterly</a> office, but I <a href="http://theliterarytype.ca/">like to blog and work </a>on my own projects, such as they are, in my living room, on the couch. When I have the option, I like to layout issues of TNQ here in my living room too, because here I'm not distracted by other things on my desk: the piles of paper, sticky notes, messages, etc that are equally urgent. From an ergonomics standpoint, this couch is a nightmare, but that just gives me all the justification I need to fidget, stretch, walk to the coffee maker and back. This room gets lots of natural light, and the window faces the street. I always sit facing the window. In fact, this photo just reminded to rotate my couch cushions; if you look closely, you can actually see the indentation left from my last session.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQ20-sQ44XSbb20rO_8TyXyruoL-MG8fcdyQBsPi_G2Dh0L8bBbVxbVhMnXqbfACEx_y4-YwlSPAH-PBkT6MIZzSe5k9Fd_U6OJ4VZ2G8GV7SUHmGi-wFxhVBULBPrBkKQqCGPd_rEvw/s1600/100_0366.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQ20-sQ44XSbb20rO_8TyXyruoL-MG8fcdyQBsPi_G2Dh0L8bBbVxbVhMnXqbfACEx_y4-YwlSPAH-PBkT6MIZzSe5k9Fd_U6OJ4VZ2G8GV7SUHmGi-wFxhVBULBPrBkKQqCGPd_rEvw/s400/100_0366.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484902820050383010" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Why do you work where you do?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT</span> I like sitting here because I find that when I write, I spend about as much time idly staring as I do typing, and my street is just busy enough to accommodate this habit. There's never enough going on to actually distract me, but there's always something to look at when I happen to look up. My neighbour's tree. My crazy neighbour's cat. Rollerbladers. Kids going to school. You know, suburbia. And if I'm not looking out the window, I'm staring at the bookshelf in the other picture. That bookshelf was made for my grandmother, was an important fixture in my childhood bedrooms (we moved a lot), and the top shelf houses my 'current all-time favorites'; I find it both comforting and inspiring to look at. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What is the last book you read (or what are you reading)?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT</span> I signed up for the Great <a href="http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2010/01/canadian-book-challenge-3-6th-roundup.html">Canadian Book Challenge</a> for the first time this year, and the way I chose to personalize it was to limit my thirteen books to ones that have been given or lent to me by friends, family or complete strangers. Book number eight was Galore by Michael Crummey, lent to me by my mom (we both loved it); I'm now in the middle of February by Lisa Moore. It's breaking my heart. A friend cautioned me that it would ruin future books for me because it's so good; I think he might be right.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What are you working on now? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT</span> Trying to actually finish one of the many essays I've started so that I may send it out and thus finally understand how the many submitters to TNQ really feel!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-87434067018934432092010-05-13T08:52:00.000-07:002010-06-20T11:05:35.977-07:00Coming up<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7D2f1yKtbLgFhKaIV_6I0lGniZQci0-hix9uz2mKHnTYhwRbF_Mg-O9UYFBLOprUCYmvQoU8HWJ84wT3Fe6nraTTFeyFKpoeaepS5xOiNlFIZhutATcsZWO5kByedxmqdHj13iPTam9A/s1600/RT.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7D2f1yKtbLgFhKaIV_6I0lGniZQci0-hix9uz2mKHnTYhwRbF_Mg-O9UYFBLOprUCYmvQoU8HWJ84wT3Fe6nraTTFeyFKpoeaepS5xOiNlFIZhutATcsZWO5kByedxmqdHj13iPTam9A/s400/RT.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484918478286352962" /></a><br /><br /><br />on DESK SPACE: <a href="http://www.tnq.ca/magazine/">Rosalynn Tyo</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-40572546903666114122010-04-10T17:19:00.000-07:002010-04-10T21:34:58.140-07:00CHRISTOPHER MORRIS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JtQ_u74Rqtkg54OJeEQzx2aOVcn6YslzAoxIhGWmtgrbh4feVO8XaazlcUCBsRTWelW4ek9oJCqpn07VWzaqhTA1W4baxcB8NGN_D9ZwzPYU58rKOl_lfif7AZI6OMv3hp6Kz0szYo8/s1600/Christopher+Working+Photo.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JtQ_u74Rqtkg54OJeEQzx2aOVcn6YslzAoxIhGWmtgrbh4feVO8XaazlcUCBsRTWelW4ek9oJCqpn07VWzaqhTA1W4baxcB8NGN_D9ZwzPYU58rKOl_lfif7AZI6OMv3hp6Kz0szYo8/s400/Christopher+Working+Photo.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458668391617794098" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Christopher Morris for DESK SPACE</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DESK SPACE</span> Who?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CHRISTOPHER MORRIS</span> I am an actor, director and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2009/04/14/nac-season.html">playwright</a> living in Toronto and am the <a href="http://www.humancargo.ca/bios/christopher-morris">artistic director of the theatre company Human Cargo</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> When did you start becoming interested in acting or get your first role?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CM</span> My first official play was playing some kind of grave digging person in grade three in a version of A Christmas Carol at my elementary school in Markham, Ontario called Kateri Tekakwitha. My first "real" play was in grade nine in a collective abouhigh school called The Highschool Zone, I played a nerd and a tough guy.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Where do you come up with ideas for your characters?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CM</span> I always get ideas about my character from the script. Sometimes I feel like I get too "outer" and looking for effect if I look outside the script.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Why do you work where you do?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CM</span> On a smaller scale, I work in my small farm house in Toronto. It's a perfect kind of oasis from the city, at times I feel like I don't live in a city because it's tucked away off the street, but great because I can get right into the middle of the city whenever I want. Over the last few years I have been creating work with my company in places outside Toronto (some of them being - Nunavut, Iceland, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, Republic of Georgia, Petawawa, Yellowknife). Working in places outside my culture help keep me off-balance in a way and make me try to find new ways in, or new ways to create things.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What was the last play or film you watched?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CM</span> The last film I watched was Polytechnique, the last play I watched was Cloud Nine.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What are you working on now?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CM</span> I am working as an <a href="http://www.necessaryangel.com/hamlet_creativeteam">actor</a> on <a href="http://www.necessaryangel.com/andromache">an extremely dirty adaptation of Racine's Andromache</a>, and organising upcoming workshops for <a href="http://www.humancargo.ca/">Human Cargo</a>. One is called The <a href="http://www.humancargo.ca/projects/runner">Runner and is about ZAKA (I'm writing and acting in this)</a>, the other is called <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091030/petawawa_parwin_091031/20091031?hub=EntertainmentV2">Petawawa and is about how the war in Afghanistan</a> affects the <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091101/petawawa_p2_091101/20091101">families of Canadian, Pakistani, Afghan and Taliban soldiers</a> (I'm directing this one).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-72815575332231489882010-03-22T09:27:00.001-07:002010-03-22T09:27:50.297-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4uDDYX21m5kUqPnj9axGOM6U7K1zPXMP5O9Li4JtFn7qn22gox0aIJKndV5-D3yDwIBhTCMTfbieL97MBFcmuskJ27SfguHtGqgUEcOnvVbJ_ID9EhVx-8yn3vYWk8pEWbwOnzdtKEM/s1600-h/CM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4uDDYX21m5kUqPnj9axGOM6U7K1zPXMP5O9Li4JtFn7qn22gox0aIJKndV5-D3yDwIBhTCMTfbieL97MBFcmuskJ27SfguHtGqgUEcOnvVbJ_ID9EhVx-8yn3vYWk8pEWbwOnzdtKEM/s400/CM.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451495714714844802" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-59675521642481476452010-03-16T15:39:00.000-07:002010-03-16T15:41:25.573-07:00Coming upon DESK SPACE: <a href="http://www.humancargo.ca/bios/christopher-morris-1">Christopher Morris</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-55420048869506135352010-02-28T17:09:00.000-08:002010-02-28T17:29:31.676-08:00ADRIENNE WEISS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyTQq-aa_3h3xcx9NHFR_DNk9tR9yk_fWJmCgf2v7zN5h9T73U51FYj4enxASa-89XzbWLTIboprws0-e1X6uCd0Rif8fZqcdNFLfWXkFGwfDvaCZh0ivwjbkKELzpZWwz4TYGrZ5l4Y/s1600-h/IMG_7907.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyTQq-aa_3h3xcx9NHFR_DNk9tR9yk_fWJmCgf2v7zN5h9T73U51FYj4enxASa-89XzbWLTIboprws0-e1X6uCd0Rif8fZqcdNFLfWXkFGwfDvaCZh0ivwjbkKELzpZWwz4TYGrZ5l4Y/s400/IMG_7907.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443467021765726450" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Adrienne Weiss for DESK SPACE</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DESK SPACE</span> Who? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">ADRIENNE WEISS</span> Adrienne Weiss lives in Parkdale, teaches college students how to write, and then tries to <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/stage/story.cfm?content=129251&archive=21,4,2001">write stuff</a> herself.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> When did you start writing, publish your first book? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AW</span> First attempt at writing a story—a murder mystery—was in 1983. First attempt to get published—in <a href="http://owlkids.com/owl/monthly.html">OWL Magazine</a>—was in 1985. <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Awful-Gestures-Adrienne-Weiss/dp/1894663128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267406607&sr=8-1">First book: 2001</a>. <a href="http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/untitled-by-zelda-sayre">Last published poem: 2008</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Where do you write? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AW</span> In bed while Coast to Coast is on the radio, at the desk in the picture, while students write exams, whenever I am held up in a waiting room waiting to do my taxes….<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Why do you work where you do?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AW</span> That desk in the picture is in a small room surrounded by paper and pictures and funny paraphernalia that somehow or other creates a comfortable yet disturbing space. That helps with the writing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What are you working on now? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AW</span> Still working on a manuscript of poetry now eight or nine years old. Dreaming of writing a lengthy essay that outlines the brilliance of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfkfomhEVxk">Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-28746150214679907722010-02-28T10:44:00.001-08:002010-02-28T10:44:58.854-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglXm4pwDVXTW2ZSxBQXFg3m4suZTyzu3JAX6tyVziib3WbjPw4iEDXNO02TO7QqunON6gNGPV0nurLbjifSjsfd3rZ3iVk7v3EoqLMfzK0NUlndrgbuJ4As4rrlZ94gjnztB9h-DB69Es/s1600-h/11.11.8+(4).JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 378px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglXm4pwDVXTW2ZSxBQXFg3m4suZTyzu3JAX6tyVziib3WbjPw4iEDXNO02TO7QqunON6gNGPV0nurLbjifSjsfd3rZ3iVk7v3EoqLMfzK0NUlndrgbuJ4As4rrlZ94gjnztB9h-DB69Es/s400/11.11.8+(4).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443367208750357954" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-4406701511061516652010-02-15T14:34:00.000-08:002010-02-15T14:35:03.170-08:00Coming upon DESK SPACE: <a href="http://www.insomniacpress.com/author.php?id=14">Adrienne Weiss</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-86457943914086047802010-02-05T08:54:00.001-08:002010-02-05T18:46:31.848-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTC0sh53XR8rFMQDByrrjsdzbJxWR1lF-5VBPJUtS_r1fQFLKpEltlMWqY97SZnK1YTUT6oU3L1g3dZDEtW24jIt0V8JerQLdbJV1NYivcMx_tRpEglzwt2tWWOsE4MzH7AYp6KaQFLk/s1600-h/Snapshot+of+me+13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 359px; height: 359px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTC0sh53XR8rFMQDByrrjsdzbJxWR1lF-5VBPJUtS_r1fQFLKpEltlMWqY97SZnK1YTUT6oU3L1g3dZDEtW24jIt0V8JerQLdbJV1NYivcMx_tRpEglzwt2tWWOsE4MzH7AYp6KaQFLk/s400/Snapshot+of+me+13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434956315571232130" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-4657339599458208052010-01-28T18:21:00.000-08:002010-01-28T20:55:24.177-08:00RICHARD CROUSE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbhSHq_-TzYWETNImuBQhk1qX8ExQq86tUFCf63Xr4kkMuFUNHbDv99deykZEP4Xq1ltdOH2iNi9Qu-KQlXzzuuKjOryVk5K_BUIM5KyheEmP2wg7W2rtvdQeJpOz_IWrK0eqligCF8Q/s1600-h/PC090335.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbhSHq_-TzYWETNImuBQhk1qX8ExQq86tUFCf63Xr4kkMuFUNHbDv99deykZEP4Xq1ltdOH2iNi9Qu-KQlXzzuuKjOryVk5K_BUIM5KyheEmP2wg7W2rtvdQeJpOz_IWrK0eqligCF8Q/s400/PC090335.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432002777691649858" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.readings.org/?q=biographies/richard_crouse">Richard Crouse</a> for DESK SPACE</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DESK SPACE</span> Who (a one-liner or a bio)?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.richardcrouse.ca/">RICHARD CROUSE</a></span> I’m a purveyor of <a href="http://www.newstalk1010.com/shows/1001528">opinions</a>, <a href="http://www.610cktb.com/shows/868650">some wanted</a>, some not.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE33lJxKQ8z5TftxEQuM0rmHZ7M3aG6p9uoynLtS3k4zUQXGQ_Ecuz2KSz2iPdcgQaksJj6MO3I372DwWcyNhuDIo1Ku4FaIWWGTKJhyphenhyphenNrV3172mxgvvXspp1EOKt9yh9B0q6IiqXLVEg/s1600-h/PC090353.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE33lJxKQ8z5TftxEQuM0rmHZ7M3aG6p9uoynLtS3k4zUQXGQ_Ecuz2KSz2iPdcgQaksJj6MO3I372DwWcyNhuDIo1Ku4FaIWWGTKJhyphenhyphenNrV3172mxgvvXspp1EOKt9yh9B0q6IiqXLVEg/s400/PC090353.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432004198016923298" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> When did you start writing or publish your first book (or when are you publishing your next)?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSRCSQROv-CSDVShY7PFpHeBwggoc9ZeK6HXo4J7wgjd9FyZqlK37TsD8CJH50RHN24M7RNPCD5arpBBtB3om2YQvp3yLLPaOVr5Y_9rdIvqMsdc2BGNt3c41ilehVYCEJfQVwTdW8oWQ/s1600-h/PC090342.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSRCSQROv-CSDVShY7PFpHeBwggoc9ZeK6HXo4J7wgjd9FyZqlK37TsD8CJH50RHN24M7RNPCD5arpBBtB3om2YQvp3yLLPaOVr5Y_9rdIvqMsdc2BGNt3c41ilehVYCEJfQVwTdW8oWQ/s400/PC090342.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432003833282113378" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RC</span> From the time I was quite young<a href="http://www.ecwpress.com/biographies/richard_crouse"> I always wanted to look at the book shelf and see my name on the spine of a book</a>. I just had no clue how to make that happen. I wrote (an unpublished) book about my favorite band, The Rolling Stones, when I was fourteen or so. But I had to wait twenty more years to actually write one that went to the printers. My best advice for anyone who has their first book coming out is: remember everything about the process because it’s never the same or as fun, again. I recall when the author’s copies of my first book arrived by courier. Twenty-five copies of the book in a big brown cardboard box with the title and my name on the side. I was excited but let the box sit unopened for several hours because I knew when I opened it, although it was going to be cool to see the book, that part of my dream would be over. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VC2tMSBTM56LBtJTPIQ9CTDD65Rz_xRdKXCs5V_v2iuGLsIq_nOY-d9k4NoqdCrI_Kn8etkTMzyqJAXMNBhYYhkoMFrEODKbxyZ4RjTevutoonzKIJe8vXRuvrkrKtcUhfQTdGmiM0g/s1600-h/PC090348.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VC2tMSBTM56LBtJTPIQ9CTDD65Rz_xRdKXCs5V_v2iuGLsIq_nOY-d9k4NoqdCrI_Kn8etkTMzyqJAXMNBhYYhkoMFrEODKbxyZ4RjTevutoonzKIJe8vXRuvrkrKtcUhfQTdGmiM0g/s400/PC090348.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432003508925361394" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Where do you write (at your desk/outside/in bed)?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcnpJT-dl-u9Wwbid3rzAkPHY7wHt1CUAQi_ybIbJL72eb2AaSVh7OXdcWCsz9ueR-jWjU6fr15hTM_VieDTN6wwETxj_HzDyyQs0nC2IrFw9eycC1Upq_BdazheMDUBTLSv4vxs17Vc/s1600-h/PC090337.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcnpJT-dl-u9Wwbid3rzAkPHY7wHt1CUAQi_ybIbJL72eb2AaSVh7OXdcWCsz9ueR-jWjU6fr15hTM_VieDTN6wwETxj_HzDyyQs0nC2IrFw9eycC1Upq_BdazheMDUBTLSv4vxs17Vc/s400/PC090337.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432002155394583570" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RC</span> I write in my home office, a sun drenched room cluttered with books, DVDs, nic nacs, and things to keep my brain active. It’s close to the kitchen so there is a never ending supply of caffeine at arm’s reach and it has a big couch for, as the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuFZ-jxC8s">Friendly Giant</a> would say, “two to curl up in,” although most of the time it is just me, sitting, avoiding writing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_ENqUbHX7xaHObbIWgRt7S4dadcv_S3Ngi11V8rcUpa7_xkv7x35WfIYl5otA2IQQVPDBMxsa97x1cir9YV40ny915E6z-uhUROWSxApSdylwYcxRDPUyN4QJc8UfyPi-thuCRBx6VQ/s1600-h/PC090336.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_ENqUbHX7xaHObbIWgRt7S4dadcv_S3Ngi11V8rcUpa7_xkv7x35WfIYl5otA2IQQVPDBMxsa97x1cir9YV40ny915E6z-uhUROWSxApSdylwYcxRDPUyN4QJc8UfyPi-thuCRBx6VQ/s400/PC090336.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432001760198669042" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Why do you work where you do (at your desk because it is a quiet space/outside b/c it helps you think/in the park b/c you can smoke, etc)?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1P256YJWpkWNXBz_OfIiygC4j2kC5bLm51ZqJuidJ0ucbaAyuJI_Vt9jqdscmUZQQgJHiOaEM7fKSohT4Jst2LjjJ8pIiHLC0f8q5sHtEwA2fO5xijyn5xC7REsemOiYTxu4dHJRUkI/s1600-h/PC090339.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1P256YJWpkWNXBz_OfIiygC4j2kC5bLm51ZqJuidJ0ucbaAyuJI_Vt9jqdscmUZQQgJHiOaEM7fKSohT4Jst2LjjJ8pIiHLC0f8q5sHtEwA2fO5xijyn5xC7REsemOiYTxu4dHJRUkI/s400/PC090339.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432003106821007042" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RC</span> Virtually everything I’ve ever <a href="http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/comment/article/429601--from-the-squared-circle-to-the-silver-screen">written</a> that has been published has been written on the desk you see in the photo. Or, I should say, what’s left of the desk in the photo. The only part that remains of the original desk is the top—the rest of it slowly disintegrated over the years of being moved here and there, but I refuse to let go of the top. It has been the support for my original Underwood typewriter, a series of electric typewriters and now a series of computers and lap tops. It is pock marked and scarred, has had drinks spilled on it and was once treated as a chew toy by a Doberman but is always there for me… and for that reason as long as I write, wherever the desk is will be my favorite place to be.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJxmI2rGRQGp-TKuMJZTmB4gXvB9JwV-f9da66GfOV6zxFuobCLnJ1qPo5hUQ75N0Sk2zEEtagtuWKQ03htPTU_iYkeN9a7bx6ydLqaw1lWZ8fdNwqY441Lf_uC-J3VnN0LxCaHcjWmo/s1600-h/PC090340.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJxmI2rGRQGp-TKuMJZTmB4gXvB9JwV-f9da66GfOV6zxFuobCLnJ1qPo5hUQ75N0Sk2zEEtagtuWKQ03htPTU_iYkeN9a7bx6ydLqaw1lWZ8fdNwqY441Lf_uC-J3VnN0LxCaHcjWmo/s400/PC090340.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432001378974320322" /></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What was the last film you watched/ book you read?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RC</span> I see anywhere from 5 to 10 movies a week, so by the time you post this I’ll have seen 20 more movies, so I’ll pass on that question, but I have been reading a lot lately. I don’t read a lot of fiction but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/17/chronic-city-jonathan-lethem-review">Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem</a> is pretty fabulous and a book called <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Taylor-t.html">Sway: A Novel by Zachary Lazar</a> has been highly recommended to me. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBhIzKNjpKU0ExognkxxJ5UDokbhk6viz8YXO8FUS1HfKDjrfKfLpBwYS4NeBQ6ps_iLJNJziNP8TXmAK33_4zuV4baNmts4pfrh7QQInD6CjlkQR-E5w-QH4v-ppa37Lu8ItXfQIIXA/s1600-h/PC090351.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBhIzKNjpKU0ExognkxxJ5UDokbhk6viz8YXO8FUS1HfKDjrfKfLpBwYS4NeBQ6ps_iLJNJziNP8TXmAK33_4zuV4baNmts4pfrh7QQInD6CjlkQR-E5w-QH4v-ppa37Lu8ItXfQIIXA/s400/PC090351.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432001025794639234" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What are you working on now?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvth3GrNoTt24H8IOryxX-htlCDqFtP6U-02OuIn2tc2UxOA9pRYqfwrgUNLW2bYoWTvp8jy3SkS6cGqpnrO9YNUdR1mky4xcUzDP_7LwG-Li2NOJewk_QzDr86k6gVYbPug4U8PAVX8/s1600-h/PC090350.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvth3GrNoTt24H8IOryxX-htlCDqFtP6U-02OuIn2tc2UxOA9pRYqfwrgUNLW2bYoWTvp8jy3SkS6cGqpnrO9YNUdR1mky4xcUzDP_7LwG-Li2NOJewk_QzDr86k6gVYbPug4U8PAVX8/s400/PC090350.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432000739093230178" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RC</span> I always have a number of projects brewing simultaneously. There’s a new <a href="http://www.falltvpreview.com/channel.php?id=81">TV show</a> that is close to getting funded, a half finished novel about a singer who kills his drummer to get publicity for his band’s new record, the syndicated radio show and a dozen or so writing gigs. Other than that I’m just trying to make sense of all the words in my head by putting them in the right order. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_nMzbF5qTxhbsnHuRDbS9nOqhIrsWnHg3aUIb2fDqKSmjE3pIcYPT5qvwzX6s7Wz7Pi6kxahOY7pYacCaUvjxQX3wXoKHv0xc4nUI_XksK0uXA8rpvwlKJrTiCTBcSCN1ynrtAJd_eIc/s1600-h/PC090349.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_nMzbF5qTxhbsnHuRDbS9nOqhIrsWnHg3aUIb2fDqKSmjE3pIcYPT5qvwzX6s7Wz7Pi6kxahOY7pYacCaUvjxQX3wXoKHv0xc4nUI_XksK0uXA8rpvwlKJrTiCTBcSCN1ynrtAJd_eIc/s400/PC090349.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432000421158440642" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-4645732808797890002010-01-27T22:40:00.000-08:002010-01-27T22:41:20.927-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mEVz2rtL_2Q_FA4fPyGproeOeiCSQ4UcEdCRxFTRgx8JV9OFdQeMMDAyeygmKBg7hDukgW15-rUW_WYVnQJ7qzSrPdKj5C5Rrt2Mv6wNG-lB1wSwbuGiEsfjm3Sqv8aurtVrWaA-moU/s1600-h/polaroid-5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mEVz2rtL_2Q_FA4fPyGproeOeiCSQ4UcEdCRxFTRgx8JV9OFdQeMMDAyeygmKBg7hDukgW15-rUW_WYVnQJ7qzSrPdKj5C5Rrt2Mv6wNG-lB1wSwbuGiEsfjm3Sqv8aurtVrWaA-moU/s400/polaroid-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431677086561198738" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-73679661903365075722010-01-21T07:09:00.000-08:002010-01-21T07:10:08.543-08:00Coming upNext week on DESK SPACE: <a href="http://www.richardcrouse.ca/">Richard Crouse</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-74419145999246740692010-01-14T09:17:00.000-08:002010-01-14T09:22:43.405-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAhmxCBTIywAOSS1vj4iiyWJjmrVm_VeMlt-zAkDATgnTmgx0JNdyV_Y-aKEDACG7hWUj3R8KKmH9QCDcQDUwgH0dAJF0TWIHFHFDbetAiA4TjCwaDOPQPiHeATk0bcNg2p_ENmTC7yw/s1600-h/missing!.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAhmxCBTIywAOSS1vj4iiyWJjmrVm_VeMlt-zAkDATgnTmgx0JNdyV_Y-aKEDACG7hWUj3R8KKmH9QCDcQDUwgH0dAJF0TWIHFHFDbetAiA4TjCwaDOPQPiHeATk0bcNg2p_ENmTC7yw/s400/missing!.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426647106470969298" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-34409650498591757582010-01-07T12:03:00.000-08:002010-01-07T20:07:32.971-08:00JONATHAN BALL<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvqON0LmNP4wYruXd2w3Xne-8mMUj2EuY93soqomX3pzfARcsHe8OssYmg4SvOPgu0dP4RQZbZLsMbo17vusZ5gDji3aEESDx94hGQaosbhy69mv7G3d9VKSY1BPJXaD2A1pQ9q0q5pA/s1600-h/BALL+Desk+Space+B.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvqON0LmNP4wYruXd2w3Xne-8mMUj2EuY93soqomX3pzfARcsHe8OssYmg4SvOPgu0dP4RQZbZLsMbo17vusZ5gDji3aEESDx94hGQaosbhy69mv7G3d9VKSY1BPJXaD2A1pQ9q0q5pA/s400/BALL+Desk+Space+B.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424092412264194866" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.jonathanball.com/focusonfilm2009.mp3">Jonathan Ball</a> for DESK SPACE</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DESK SPACE</span> Who?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">JONATHAN BALL</span> <a href="http://www.jonathanball.com/">Jonathan Ball</a>: <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-reviewing-jonathan-ball.html">writer</a>, <a href="http://rhetoric.uwinnipeg.ca/Jon_Ball/index.htm">teacher</a>, and wannabe polymath.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> When did you start writing, publish your first book (or when are you publishing your next)?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">JB </span>I always wrote but <a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/12/0082741">got serious about it</a> in 1999. Ten years passed, and I published my first book of poetry, <a href="http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=200915">Ex Machina </a>(BookThug, 2009). Ex Machina is a long poem written according the conceit that the book is hijacking the neural machinery of the reader to produce poems, and it meditates on the interconnectedness of poetry, books, machines, and humans. My next book (also poetry) will be Clockfire <a href="http://www.chbooks.com/">(Coach House</a>, 2010). Clockfire consists of prose poems which describe plays that would be impossible to produce: a play in which you destroy the sun, plays in which you murder the audience, a play which requires magical powers or absurd physics, and so forth.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNJZwLfhR40UAqeYhI5RZ5VJjReTBfnEG0cV7IkQ14tU9yQ9z4UQJ8T9LitW6TQEBLsVNYuStZFhn5wTVmrKCyZF6VHcAbJ8Ta0CdnUPHQ860TeB7QMaIUwLPIf2GOi_e0_r5jZq5QOk/s1600-h/BALL+Desk+Space+A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNJZwLfhR40UAqeYhI5RZ5VJjReTBfnEG0cV7IkQ14tU9yQ9z4UQJ8T9LitW6TQEBLsVNYuStZFhn5wTVmrKCyZF6VHcAbJ8Ta0CdnUPHQ860TeB7QMaIUwLPIf2GOi_e0_r5jZq5QOk/s400/BALL+Desk+Space+A.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424092135149413106" /></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Where do you write?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">JB</span> I write at the desk pictured here. I took the picture in the middle of a writing session (on my coffee break). Twice a week, I write in my office at the <a href="http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/">University of Winnipeg</a> --- my University of Manitoba office has no computer (I am a sessional instructor at both universities). I may make notes elsewhere, but I try not to write unless I am at the desk.<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> Why do you work where you do?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">JB</span> My handwriting is too messy to read so I never work longhand, and I don't have a laptop. Also, I need to confine my writing to a particular small area that I can walk away from --- if I can't physically walk away from the work, then I go crazy feeling compelled/obligated to work constantly. There are also <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/practical">tax reasons</a> to have a specific area of the apartment isolated as a home office. I listen to music while I write, heavy metal for the most part, and my computer doubles as my stereo (you can see the subwoofer on the floor).<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DS</span> What are you working on now?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">JB</span> The third draft of The Crow Murders, a novel. Not wanting to say too much about a book still in progress, I will reproduce my standard line: "The Crow Murders draws on magic realism and postmodernism to tell a story steeped in gothicism, where the book itself is a monster that seeks the death of its characters." Always working on other things, but this novel is my top writing priority.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664141908763467058.post-7114696929185119842010-01-04T14:12:00.000-08:002010-01-04T14:13:33.119-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrb1AZoELjElFfocPWcSgGC9sppik2Ytlu82ris0j-ULlDjfh4wK8_e-vVY8khPLWCqrktajTczG4Ux7wOusTk5Rxukl9PZ4g66KjHmgcnpOMa6G00BH2dQFB2xqCwUygQ_VUp3_r3qNo/s1600-h/JB.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrb1AZoELjElFfocPWcSgGC9sppik2Ytlu82ris0j-ULlDjfh4wK8_e-vVY8khPLWCqrktajTczG4Ux7wOusTk5Rxukl9PZ4g66KjHmgcnpOMa6G00BH2dQFB2xqCwUygQ_VUp3_r3qNo/s400/JB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423011284250956034" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0