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Year-end Roundup: A Chat with Nicole Lundrigan and an overview of GLASS BOYS
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsGlass Boys is the fourth novel by Newfoundland novelist Nicole Lundrigan, an author dubbed as “a serious contender for the next great Canadian novelist” by critic Sarah Weinman. It received... -
Year-end Roundup: A Chat with Valerie Compton and an Overview of TIDE ROAD
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsIt might be a debut novel, but it seems strange to call it that, given how seasoned and stellar a writer Compton is. She’s been doing this for twenty years,... -
Year-end Roundup: An Interview with Lynn Coady and an Overview of THE ANTAGONIST
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsLynn Coady’s The Antagonist was shortlisted for the Giller Prize this year, the country’s most illustrious literary award. Over the course of her career, she’s written a body of work... -
Year-end Review: A Chat with Jacob McArthur Mooney and an Overview of Folk
Posted on January 10, 2012 | 4 CommentsThere are a lot of people in the world. Billions. To make a national or even regional award’s shortlist is quite a feat, but to land on one for an... -
Year-end Round Up: A Chat with Patrick Warner and an Overview of Double Talk
Posted on January 9, 2012 | 1 CommentWarner on Double Talk, winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award … Ireland’s poet and novelist, Patrick Warner, moved to Newfoundland in 1980 “in search of better weather and... -
Year-end Summary: A Chat with Gerard Collins and an Overview of Moonlight Sketches
Posted on January 5, 2012 | No CommentsGerard’s been winning awards for a decade, and finally gave us a published collection last spring. In Moonlight Sketches, Collins excels in hooking his reader with a well-paced sense of... -
Ed Riche Week: Talking Wine with Ed Riche
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe main character in Ed Riche’s new novel, Easy to Like, is a screenwriter turned winemaker … Ed knows his stuff, so read up and learn what to serve with... -
Ed Riche Week: Shedding Some Ink on … Ed Riche
Posted on December 13, 2011 | 2 CommentsEd Riche, recently crowned Atlantic Canada’s King of Satire by Salty Ink, writes for the page, stage, screen, and radio. Well. A Chemistry student turned film school graduate, he co-created... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Mark Callanan, Featuring 2 Poems
Posted on November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments“It’s not so much that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living,’ but that the unexamined life has not yet been lived.” – Mark Callanan I don’t hesitate at all... -
The People in Your Industry Series / The World According to … Sean Cranbury
Posted on November 24, 2011 | No CommentsNote: This interview was conducted early last month, on another blog I since shut down to be exclusive with and dedicated to Salty Ink. Some of Sean’s answers might reflect... -
This Month’s Canadian Affair, pt.1 — The World According to … Rebecca Rosenblum
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 1 CommentOn the 1st and 15th of Every Month, Salty Ink Takes a Look at What’s Going on up in Canada, Profiling Some of Our Notable Canadian Counterparts and/or Books I’ve... -
A Chat with CBC’s Jamie Fitzpatrick about his New Book, You Could Believe in Nothing
Posted on September 21, 2011 | No CommentsJamie Fitzpatrick’s You Could Believe in Nothing is the third winner of Newfoundland’s Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. And the third winner of that award to be published to... -
Shedding Some Ink On … Mark Anthony Jarman
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsVery few Canadian writers have had short fiction published as widely, and to as much acclaim as Mark Anthony Jarman. More importantly, there’s no one like him, not even an... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Kevin Major
Posted on February 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsKevin Major’s career started off with a bang in 1978, with the release of Hold Fast. Among many accolades, it won a GG Award. A fine enough incentive to lure... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Russell Wangersky
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsAuthor-journalist Russell Wangersky’s writing is crystalline; the cadence and rhythm to his writing are quite often perfect. He’s also the writer who has come the closest to bringing me to tears. Truthfully.... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Alison Pick
Posted on December 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe very talented poet and novelist Alison Pick started her career the way most Canadian authors might like to: by winning the highly regarded Bronwen Wallace award, in 2002. Michael Crummey and Allisa... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Michael Winter
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 1 CommentSuperman can fly, Billie Holiday can sing, and Michael Winter can capture life in a way that makes even the ordinary feel explosive. He is good for Canadian literature: if... -
Shedding Some Ink On … George Murray
Posted on September 10, 2010 | 1 CommentGeorge Murray, — otherwise known as “The Bookninja guy,” for running one of the world’s first and currently most followed literary blogs, Bookninja.com — has five books of poetry out... -
Shedding Some Ink On … Lynn Coady
Posted on August 10, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s the vivacity of Lynn Coady’s writing that I really like. Her authentic voice and lively characters. And she’s had quite a remarkable career, right from the start. Her recently... -
Shedding Some Ink On … Kathleen Winter
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsKathleen Winter is no stranger to writing, in any form. She has written for television — from Sesame Street to CBC documentaries — and for newspapers, including her former weekly... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Jessica Grant
Posted on June 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe qualities of Jessica Grant’s writing are beyond words, and for that reason, she might be the freshest, most readably original voice in the country. In the spring of 2010, the country... -
Shedding Some Ink … On Carla Gunn
Posted on May 10, 2010 | No CommentsCarla Gunn’s writing has been featured in the Globe and Mail, The National Post, The New Brunswick Reader and heard on CBC radio. From her publisher’s website: “Along with writing,... -
Shedding Some Ink … on Michael Crummey
Posted on April 10, 2010 | 1 CommentMichael Crummey has had the kind of year every writer aspires to. Galore has to have been one of the most talked about books of the year and one of... -
Shedding Some Ink on Carol Bruneau
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsCarol Bruneau, an anthologized writer of short fiction and multi-award-winning novelist, really got started in 1995 with the publication of her short fiction collection After the Angel Mill, which was nominated for... -
Shedding Some Ink … On Michelle Butler Hallett
Posted on December 23, 2009 | No CommentsI first heard about Michelle Butler Hallet when she won the David Adams Richards Prize in 2004, for Obliged to Drink Bad Water, and since that time, Michelle has released three...
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