Kathleen Molloy

Really, is there anyone who doesn’t love Maggie?

Spent the weekend in a town was dripping with CanLit icons. Kingston WritersFest welcomed: Margaret Atwood

Gil Adamson Lorna Crozier Leon Rooke and The Dewey Divas (sans Dudes??)

Kingston, in the Autumn, with folks that love books … what could be better? How about Kingston, in the Autumn, with a book in hand and a warm bowl of chilli in the other?

Chilli Fest Kingston is hot stuff. Saturday, October 3, 2009 12 Noon to 4pm Confederation Park, Downtown Kingston

Benjamin Cunningham captures the heart of the Prague Writers’ Festival in his summary posted in The Prague Post. The heart is a piece about exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian. In 1987, his work Stick Out Your Tongue got his writing outlawed in China. Now living in London, he is remembering an old China as he writes. His latest work Beijing Coma tells the story of a comatose Ph.D. student who has just woken up from his coma after being hit by a bullet during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Old and new clash. Just as old and new clash in Prague. I fell in love with Prague. I fell in love with Prague decades before I visited it in 2000. And when I think back on what I loved the most of the millions of things that I loved about that city was this: men reading in public. Everywhere, EVERYWHERE men had their noses in books.  How can I get an invite to the Prague Writers’ Festival? I’d love to see where the men are now reading Ma Jian in the streets.