CanLit

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

For those interested in canlit i recommend a new cbc 1 radio program on wednesday nights at 9 (and yes i am plugging a friend's show but we could just talk canlit too!):
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/literary_atlas/index.html

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:58 pm

I'm interested in CanLit in so much as I have an exam about it on Friday!

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

cool! maybe we can help. we promise not to make shit up.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:26 pm

guinness wrote:

cool! maybe we can help. we promise not to make shit up.

This might be necessary since my book of notes has disappeared from my house, and I have no idea where it would be. And my exam is tomorrow morning, ain't it grand?

Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 1231 Location: Sweden

Here goes, then:

Margaret Atwood is Canadian.
William Gibson is Canadian.
Saul Bellow was Canadian.
J. G. Ballard might be Canadian.

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

that should be enough to pass the test eh??
that and remember there are lots of depressed people in barren landscapes.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:20 pm

mugabe wrote:

Here goes, then:

Margaret Atwood is Canadian.
William Gibson is Canadian.
Saul Bellow was Canadian.
J. G. Ballard might be Canadian.

My god. I hope I can remember all of that!

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:41 pm

Aw man, I thought this was literature about cans.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:04 pm

I wrote some Can Fan-Fic if you want to see it.
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Corn sat at his bed like he often did on nights like this, thinking about his lost love. "Why couldn't I have saved you, Chili?" he sobbed to himself, but crying wouldn't bring her back, he had to focus....

Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 144

Robertson Davies is the king of Canada in my book. There isn't much that's more fun than the Deptford trilogy, let me tell you.

On the other hand, I've barely read any other Canadian authors, so my opinion is barely valid. Well, Atwood. But I don't count her. For some reason.

This post is over!

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guinness wrote:

For those interested in canlit i recommend a new cbc 1 radio program on wednesday nights at 9 (and yes i am plugging a friend's show but we could just talk canlit too!):
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/literary_atlas/index.html

Ideas is the best radio show ever! I used to listen to every night when I was a truck driver working graveyard shifts.

Also, does anyone else find it hilariously funny that the national Candaian spelling bee is called 'Can-Spell'?

Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

brion gysin is canadian...

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

Tyrano-Bob not logged in wrote:

Ideas is the best radio show ever! I used to listen to every night when I was a truck driver working graveyard shifts.

you should listen to this series -- it's noah richler (mordecai's son) and it's every wednesday -- interviews with canadian authors . . . . it's good!