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Littera Scripta
http://litterascripta.wordpress.com/
- Author: redstarcafe
- Listed in: Books
- Tags: Culture books literature book reviews authors
- Added on: Apr 1st, 2008
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Recent Posts
The Impossibility of Translating Poetry
When work took Erin Moure to Montreal for the first time in 1984, she admits that she could “barely cope” with the language. Early last year, with poet/novelist/playwright Robert Majzels, she embarked on a French-to-English translation of...
A 21st Century Gutenberg
When photography dealer Howard Greenberg celebrated his 25th anniversary in the business last year, he mounted an exhibition at his midtown Manhattan gallery. Amid 25 seductive highlights from his collection – including an abstract pear by Steichen...
All Our Wonder Unavenged
Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His latest work, All Our Wonder Unavenged (Brick Books) recently won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is a poet of the holiness of...
A Treatise on the Steppenwolf
“And now I come to the araucaria. I must tell you that on the first floor of this house the stairs pass by a little vestibule at the entrance to a flat which, I am convinced, is even more spotlessly swept and garnished than the others; for this...
Booking on Success
When Heidi Hallett purchased Frog Hollow Books in Halifax’s Park Lane Mall a little over two years ago, she did so out of a lifelong love for literature. After almost a decade as a co-owner of The Coast, Halifax’s only independent weekly ...
