A Safe Girl To Love
August 14, 2015
Back in the day, I read McSweeneys all the time. Not just the features or short stories, but even the web-only stuff, like their annual column contest. It’s been years since I even visited the…
FanExpo 2010: Recap
September 10, 2011
Friday: 6:45 pm: The Expo officially opens Friday evening at 4pm, but knowing that I’d be there all weekend, I end up heading downtown late. The commute downtown is not so bad, and my arrival…
Farzana Doctor’s Book Launch: Six Metres of Pavement
September 10, 2011
(Photo Caption: TINARS Director, Marc Glassman, in conversation with Farzana Doctor.) The launch was a great success, filled with soothing vocals, wry stories about the audience’s worst mistakes, and Glassman’s psychoanalysis of Farzana Doctor (Is…
Keep Toronto Reading 2011
September 10, 2011
Having been a novice in attendance, I had no clue what to expect. What ensued that night was a series of readings by Anthony De Sa, Cesar Polvarosa Jr, and the MAD Poet. The…
The International Festival of Authors (Oct 21 to Oct 31)
September 10, 2011
Teaser: by Mia Herrera This Wednesday, October 21st marked the beginning of the 30th International Festival of Authors (IFOA), which runs this year until Saturday, October 31st. The IFOA began in 1980 with a mandate to bring…
Indie vs. Indigo
September 10, 2011
Teaser: by Mia Herrera With the seemingly continuous expansion of the Chapters/Indigo bookstore chain and the consequent closures of long-established independent booksellers, one is left to question Canada’s book industry. Indeed, the future of…
How to Become a Bookseller
September 10, 2011
Teaser: By Mia Herrera More than half my articles on Live in Limbo have been about the uncertainty of the book industry. Perhaps this is a drum that I’ve been beating for far…
Live Literature, Live Life
September 10, 2011
Teaser: Hi Everyone! As a new writer on LiL, I plan on reading and reviewing the newest and hippest books and immersing readers in the literary culture of Ontario. Before starting off, however, I thought…
Book Review: Fired Up
September 10, 2011
Teaser: by Mia Herrera Fired Up, the first novel in Krentz’s new Dreamlight Trilogy, features Chloe Harper and Jack Winters – two people with psychic abilities. Centuries ago, Jack’s ancestor, Nicholas Winters, altered his…