Rereads

Just finished rereading Philip K Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep. Amazing how prescient the man was. A great re-read. Noted the significance of the animals a lot more this time around. I don't know why, when the title is what it is, that didn't stick out to me as much the first time I read the book. It was the androids themselves, the Nexus 6, I was taken with initially. During the reread Deckard's obsession with wanting a real animal lured me through. I saw a completely different side to his character. The great thing about rereading great books is you never know, depending on the phase and stage of life you're in, what layer of the work you'll hook into. About to reread Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and the Illustrated Man. Bradbury has always been a big influence, not so much what I write, but how I write - naturally. I'm sorry he's gone.

Beauty and the Beast

It's been a busy year, but new work is on the horizon and I'm excited about the prospect of it being read. I have new fiction scheduled to appear in the upcoming issue of Taddle Creek, a short piece of fiction, my most desirable medium, and a new book, my longest story to date, a novel, that is close to the end of the final draft. What I've learned from writing this new book is simple - novels are beasts. I truly don't know why anyone writes them. But the story and the characters I am very fond of and the details. Details I discovered are integral to the beast. Beauty is also integral to the beast. If one can get past the glowering enormity of the form and concentrate on the beauty of the world being created and existing within the form, it becomes less of a laborious task and more of a frightening journey. I am not adverse to frightening journeys - after all what is life? The short story form is my friend. The novel is my obsession, like a lover. I didn't seek it out. I didn't premeditate its existence. I was happy with my friends. It seduced me one day in my car while waiting for a light to change. Wandered into my psyche, latched on and I was stuck. Like a lover I've had to learn what its trying to tell me, what it wants from me, what its all about. Like a lover, I hate it, I love it, I cry over it, I tell it I never want to see it again, then pull it to my chest and embrace it. I dream of it. It keeps me awake. I don't talk to it for days, then we don't stop talking for hours. It makes me smile, cry, manic, hungry, starving, drink, smoke, laugh, reflect and ultimately, I hope, in the end, I will have become a better person from surviving the experience, the relationship we've survived. I hope in the end, at least, I will come out of this a better writer and storyteller. I hope in the end, like all lovers, the next one will be different!

Join Me to celebrate Randy Macho Man Savage's birthday...

RANDY MACHO MAN SAVAGE BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL ART SHOW IN TORONTO!
Savage: Cult of Personality, Pure Media and the art of Macho Madness


curated by Nathaniel G. Moore


White House Studio 277 Augusta

November 12-15th (Opening 12 November 7pm)

The voice. The colours. The intensity. Pop culture magician Randy Savage transcended the sport of pro wrestling. This November in Toronto, the man who entertained thousands of Torontonians in the 80s and 90s at Maple Leaf Gardens and Skydome is having a party. An art show. A movement.

With fellow fans such as Greg Oliver (author of several wrestling books including The Heels Hall of Fame), Michael Holmes (author of Parts Unknown, wrestling poetry book) Daniel Scott Tysdal (award winning poet) who will be doing short readings, longtime fan Nathaniel G Moore will be unveiling almost 20 pieces of original art dedicated the the late Randy Savage. Other artists include Sherwin Tjia, Sonja Ahlers, Alexandra Leggat, Vicki Nerino and more.

Music, video and artwork from across North America including New York, Montreal, Calgary, Nebraska and Toronto.
The show runs from 12-15 November. Opening reception is Saturday November 12th 7pm. The event is free to the public. Wrestling fans young and old encouraged to attend.

For more information please contact Xenia or Nathaniel at

theotherwhitehouse (@) gmail.com

More info and preview:

http://criticalcrushes.blogspot.com/2011/09/savage-art-show-november-12-2011.html

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New Story in...

Taddle Creek | www.taddlecreekmag.com

Unfaithful By Alexandra Leggat. Last night I drank wine and thought of Idaho. ... www.taddlecreekmag.com/unfaithful

Didn't wake up to the Golden Gate Bridge this morning, or on it, over it - my heart is somewhere between Jackson and Broadway, teetering on the incline - the rest of me? Northeast.

Branch Magazine

I'm thrilled to be the feature writer in Branch Magazine's Wild Issue and to be in such great company. Have a look at this beautiful publication, the art, the words...

Here's the link

www.branchmagazine.com

Anvil Press Book Launch

Check out the Anvil Press Book Launch this Wednesday December 8th featuring my husband Salvatore Difalco.

TORONTO » READING/LAUNCH PARTY!
Ed Macdonald (Spat the Dummy), Tony Burgess (Ravenna Gets), Bonnie Bowman (Spaz), Kerry Ryan (Vs.) and Salvatore Difalco (The Mountie at Niagara Falls
December 8, 2010 | 7:00 p.m.
The Garrison
1197 Dundas St W
Toronto

Come out and celebrate the release of these great new books!

Cheers!