December Reading Roundup
December has been a good reading month for me. It’s been a good month in general, in fact, and I wanted to write a…
New Poetry Project Explores Mental Health With Tarot Cards
A Q&A with poet Sascha Aurora Akhtar and illustrator John Alexander Arnold about Only Dying Sparkles, a new project combining poetry, illustration…
WordPress Gutenberg: First Impressions
These are my first impressions of how WordPress Gutenberg works for creating a new post.
Literature and Empathy
As a (very) part-time journalist, I get inundated with press releases, most of which I delete. But one email subject line today…
November Reading Roundup
After a busy few months of travel, we slowed down a bit in November and spent more time just staying in comfortable…
German Literature Month: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
November is German Literature Month, hosted by Lizzy and Caroline! If you’re not familiar with it, it’s an annual celebration of literature in the…
October Reading Roundup
Did you read any good books in October? I had a decent reading month, starting with a dud but progressing to some…
New Opportunity to Get Started in Fiction Translation
I’ve always wondered how you get started in fiction translation. I mean, translating a novel seems like such a huge endeavour, and…
Eye by Marianne Micros: Greek Mythology With a Contemporary Twist
As a long-time English professor at the University of Guelph, Marianne Micros taught folktales among other things, and this influence is clear…