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	<description>Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated.</description>
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		<title>Ghost Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the question of posthumous publication, sometimes it’s best not to wake the dead]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2010/02/04/ghost-stories/</link>
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		<title>RIP, P.K. Page</title>
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P.K. Page, an extraordinary poet, prose writer, and painter, one of our most individual talents, died yesterday at home in Victoria, B.C. It is a loss not only for the world of Canadian poetry, over which she loomed large in her unusual way, but for Canada itself.
While I had read poems of hers before, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2010/01/15/rip-p-k-page/</link>
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		<title>Opposite People</title>
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Writing is freedom. The freedom to express ideas; the freedom to influence others; the freedom to explore all facets of humanity. Many authors have used this power to delve into one of our greatest unknowns: what life would be like as a member of the opposite gender. Through fiction, male and female writers get to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2010/01/06/opposite-people/</link>
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		<title>The Turner Effect</title>
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Recently, I went to Random House&#8217;s Toronto offices to interview Michael Turner about his latest fiction, a study of war and migration called 8&#215;10. The book is  made up of a series of short sections, guided by a grid pattern that prefaces each. The title, in the author&#8217;s own words, &#8220;is derived from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/27/the-turner-effect/</link>
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		<title>The Unread Book</title>
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“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things in the world.”
— [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/20/the-unread-book/</link>
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		<title>Solid Golden: An Interview With Annabel Lyon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few writers can lay claim to the triple crown — the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize — of CanLit award nominations. M.G. Vassanji pulled it off two years ago with The Assassin’s Song, and Rawi Hage followed suit with last year’s Cockroach. This year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/10/solid-golden-an-interview-with-annabel-lyon/</link>
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		<title>Once Moore, With Feeling</title>
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Lisa Moore is picking at old wounds. Her latest novel, February, is about the Ocean Ranger — an oil rig whose sinking off the coast of Newfoundland in February 1982 remains a painful blight on the province’s collective memory. February follows the lives of the fictional Helen O’Mara — whose husband is among the eighty-four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/05/once-moore-with-feeling/</link>
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		<title>IFOA Report: John Irving at the Fleck Dance Theatre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With such successes as The World According to Garp, A Prayer For Owen Meany, and The Cider House Rules to his name, John Irving is one of the most beloved novelists of our time. Last week he appeared at IFOA XXX to promote his twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River. (You can listen to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/03/ifoa-xxx-john-irving-at-the-fleck-dance-theatre/</link>
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		<title>IFOA Report: Paul Quarrington at the Brigantine Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few decades, Paul Quarrington has forged an unparalleled career as a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and musician. Earlier this year, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Saturday afternoon a sell-out crowd came to the Brigantine Room at Toronto&#8217;s Harbourfront Centre — with some, including yours truly, relegated to the adjacent tent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/10/27/ifoa-report-paul-quarrington-at-the-brigantine-room/</link>
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		<title>IFOA Report: Orhan Pamuk at the Fleck Dance Theatre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By any measure, Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk is one of the most celebrated and respected writers alive. The author of six novels, a memoir, and a recent essay collection, Pamuk was the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Three years earlier he won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award — the world’s most lucrative prize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/10/23/ifoa-report-orhan-pamuk-at-the-fleck-dance-theatre/</link>
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