Tonight New Yorker and ex-pat Dartmouthian Laura MacDonald will be on the Boston Common, a special invited guest to the lighting of the now controversial Boston Holiday/Christmas tree. This year’s tree is a 14-metre white spruce from Chester Basin. “No one I ask in Boston ever has any idea why the tree is from Nova […]
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John Ralston Saul
Renowned Canadian author and philosopher John Ralston Saul will be in Halifax on Tuesday to give a lecture as part of The Canadian Institute of International Affairs’ annual lecture series. The focus of this year’s lecture series is “Wielding Power in a World Without Borders: Exploring Visions of a Fairer World.” The topic of Saul’s […]
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Life’s a Riche
According to Newfoundlander Edward Riche, no writer is an island. The award-winning novelist is making the trek from St. John’s to the mainland to read from his latest piece of fiction The Nine Planets. Riche is stopping in Halifax on October 27 to read at the Dalhousie University Club. “I’ve dared myself never to read […]
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Not-so-instant star
Stephens Gerard Malone’s first novel, Miss Elva, sat in a trunk for 10 years after he wrote it, before it was published this year by Random House. Actually, that’s not strictly true. His first first novel was called Endless Bay. He wrote it in 1994 and published it under a pseudonym. It’s not what you’re […]