Let's Link

Let's link, shall we? On the response to Penguin's recent Canadian short story anthology, with Salon des Refusés upcoming (and me with CNQ and TNQ due in the mail). I am not certain of the politics myself, but I am just pleased that I'll soon have plenty of stories to read. Steven Beattie has turned August into a short story celebration. And at Joyland.ca, a short story by Claudia Dey. But back to reality (ha ha), on "New Labour's Terrible Memoirs". Rona Maynard spreads the word: P. Hilton is funny! Lizzie Skurnick reads Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes. The Hart House Review goes online. Heather Mallick writes (wonderfully) on John McCain's lack of internet savvy**. "Summertime" also grew on Sarah Liss. Anne Enright on how she names her characters. And Ten Reasons not to mind the rain.

**So just suppose I was one of those people who likes to go around hating the CBC, and thus finding their content and programming utterly irrelevant/offensive/a waste of tax payers' money/a symbol of what is wrong with socialism today etc. So wouldn't the fact that I am always commenting on the CBC's webforums suggest otherwise? That even I, a fervid decrier of Liberal Media Bias, am wholly engaged with the content of our nation's public broadcaster? That I in fact cannot get enough of it? Regardless of the tone of my comments, mightn't I be contributing to a vast majority of the CBC's online hits, thus ensuring their media domination into perpetuity? I just wonder...