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Mar.18.2013
I have always loved libraries, as a child I walked to the local library, a 30 minute walk, twice a week to check out books. In those days in Israel we didn’t own books but got them from the library. In my private collection I only had my most precious books, about 30...
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Aug.08.2012
I got a special 67th birthday gift, costing a few dollars but beyond priceless. A picture of my grandfather, George Allin. I had never seen his image. He killed himself in 1918. It wasn’t something that I felt comfortable about talking with my father, who always checked our gas stove dials...
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May.08.2012
Announcing the Canadian edition, and a reading to launch it next Wednesday, May 15, in Toronto at Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, 6:30-8:00 pm.
Hope you can come!
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Apr.11.2012
I just got back from Toronto and have had the first full night of sleep since I left Vienna on 15 June. The 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English - The Border as Fiction was amazing. All the little cogs in my head, the ones my dear husband often worries about, are still...
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Apr.14.2011
Ad Astra 2011 has been and gone and I was there.
It was the best of times, it was the sleepiest of times. It was an age of hope and an age of smoky hotel rooms. It is a tail of pleasant pools and greasy breakfast sausages. Oh heck, from the beginning.
The night before the con was punctuated by long...
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Apr.03.2011
Well, so to speak. Next weekend is Ad Astra, one of my favorite conventions (and my only regular international one), so I'll be heading north of the border on Friday. I'm going to be a panelist and a reader (with some cool company on both fronts), with a schedule that looks like this:
Fri...
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Mar.03.2011
Four Master Teachers - One Amazing Weekend - Screenwriter's Summit Toronto - April 9-10, 2011
www.ScreenwritersSummit.com
Together they've sold over 2,000,000 books, spoken to over 500,000 people and traveled to more than 40 countries. Famed screenwriting gurus Syd Field, Linda Seger, Michael...
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Dec.03.2010
Crossbow slaying suspect is victim's sonOttawa man faces 1st-degree murder charge after death in libraryCBC News Zhou Fang appeared in a Toronto courtroom Friday. He's accused of killing his father, Si Cheng, with a crossbow. (Andrew Tavshunsky)
The man charged with killing 52-year-old Si Cheng by...
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Oct.17.2010
Most people don’t think about the food industry as having declared war on children. They haven’t thought about governments in terms of ensuring the war never ends. But the reality is that the entire weight of the food industry and all that’s wrong with it is focused on children from the point of...
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