Anodyne
Thursday, October 26, 2006
 

Deep into that New Yorker article from the future, composing, as usual, by wandering around Vancouver's suburbs in the rain accompanied by canvas "duster," fluorescent orange MEC rain hat, lined yellow newprint pad, numerous defective stick pens, and coffee. Once the rough draft is complete, I'll post some excerpts from it.

Also transcribing my Toronto talk on Evan Lee for C. magazine, and writing a short review of Geoffrey Farmer's as-yet untitled installation at Catriona Jeffries Gallery for Montreal's Vie des Arts. So, if the next few weeks of entries simply consist of YouTube links and silly Flash animations, picture me working hard in longhand, somewhere far from the internets' tubes (eg., bustling downtown Langley City, above).

Recent reading: Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them. Prose's clarity, brevity, and generosity of advice remind me of Stephen King's excellent memoir On Writing. Prose might not be happy to find herself compared to "America's favorite schlockmeister," but these two small books, which even physically resemble each other, now sit side-by-side beside Strunk & White and the OED on my recently uncovered work table. Prose and I admire many of the same writers; her close readings of Henry Green, Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant and David Gates are particularly incisive.
- posted by cjb @ 8:01 PM


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