“Made of wet boots and rain and shiny black ravens on chimney smoke lanes,” sang Tom Waits in his song “November.” We recommend you dig out Waits’s Black Rider album to spin while you dig into Steve Vernon’s book—published by Nimbus—on the darker corners of our seaside town, the restless spirits that stalk our old […]
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Shandi Mitchell breaks ground
Buses roll by frequently. Dog-walkers stroll past, some stopping to chat with coffee-drinkers sitting in a line of chairs and tables. Cyclists pull up and lock their bikes. It’s an everyday scene, an intersection of activity that Shandi Mitchell might well describe. A screenwriter and filmmaker by trade, her first novel, Under This Unbroken Sky, […]
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Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
During the days between Halifax’s monthly spoken-word event Speak!, lyrical minds can feast on Word Warriors, an anthology of fierce women writers. Edited by Alix Olson, this collection features a forward by legendary vagina warrior Eve Ensler. A large portion of Word Warriors explores narratives of struggle. Each writer fights for the language of expression. […]
