Virginia Woolf talks fruit

"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

 

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Coming Soon

* Fresh Picked - review of a debut work by a Canadian writer, plucked from the tree of a Canadian publisher

* Fruit Basket - reviews of an established Canadian author's works, one bite -- er, book -- after the next

* Cobbler - reviews of an assortment of Canadian works on a theme, a variety of flavours to tempt your tongue

On quirky QWERTY (Torbjörn Lundmark)

Torbjörn Lundmark’s quirky QWERTY: A Note on the Type
Penguin, 2002

Following the trend of focussing on dip-in-and-out-able resources for these oh-so-sticky summer months, I’m looking to Torbjörn Lundmark’s quirky QWERTY: A Note on the Type today.

Like Jill Krementz’s book of photographs, and Adair Lara’s sentences of evidence that you are indeed a [...]

The Writer's Desk (Jill Krementz)

Jill Krementz’s The Writer’s Desk
Random House, 1996

Perhaps because it’s summertime, and my attention span shortened by humidity and holidays, I’m drawn to the books on my writing shelves that are not proper resources, but still distinctly writer-ish: The Writer’s Desk is lovely, completely browseable, enduring and endearing.

Although I do think the [...]

How do you know you're a writer? (Adair Lara)

Adair Lara’s You Know You’re a Writer When…

Chronicle Books, 2007

This is one of those delightful little books that shops keep near their counter: literary impulse buys.

My husband found it in Type Books, in their literary impulse buy department, and I’m lucky that he indulged me in it because it’s the sort [...]

The Wave in the Mind (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Shambhala, 2004

Re-visiting Le Guin’s Steering the Craft inspired me to re-read some of her essays in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination.

The collection, as [...]

Steering the Craft I (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Eighth Mountain Press, 1998

Unlike last month’s resource, The Writer’s Notebook from Tin House, a relatively new acquisition, Le Guin’s book has been on my shelves for several years. It comes from Eighth Mountain Press (in [...]