DAILY LINKS

November 23: Contest heats up for Bad Sex awards (I already picked McEwan to win, see here)

Yesterday's link: Do we need a literary canon? 

Earlier stuff: Literature's invisible arbiters 

A troubling case of readers' block 

Shame on us 

Faking it 

An elegy for the great American novel 

Spider-Man ventures online 

READINGS

November 12, 2007

Poetry

"A Boy Growing up in London" by Ron Stewart (Antigonish Review)
"Bedroomery" by Wanda Waterman St. Louis (Chiaroscuro)

Fiction

"Diving into Waters of the Moon" by Kenneth Radu (LWOT)
"Pamlona" by Alix Bemrose (Antigonish Review)

For a collection of readings, visit the Anthology.

TRIVIA CHALLENGE
November, 2007

 Question: Who was Melmoth the Wanderer's bride?

 Prize: Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers: Part One

LINKS

WHAT'S NEW

Arts Journal
A daily digest of arts and cultural journalism.
Authors Aloud
Listen to Canadian authors reading their work.
BookNinja
A Canadian book site with essays, reviews and daily links.
BookSlut
A great all-around site with a lot of stuff.
The Complete Review
A "literary saloon" and review site. Quite well done.
The Danforth Review
Well maintained site reporting on the Canadian small press scene.
Guardian: Books Unlimited
British book news and reviews.
Identity Theory
Great site featuring lots of author interviews.
LitBits
"Bite-sized fiction."
Maud Newton
"Occasional literary links, amusements, politics, and rants."
Northern Poetry Review
Canadian poetry reviews, articles and interviews.  
Poetry Reviews
Reviews of new books of Canadian poetry.
Quill & Quire
Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. The blog is terrific.

November 19: added a link to my review of Lorraine York's Literary Celebrity in Canada (at Quill & Quire)

November 12: added a review of Michael Kammen's Visual Shock

October 31: added a review of Philip Roth's Exit Ghost

ABOUT

GoodReports.net (originally Alex Good's Book Page) was launched in December 1999 as a personal home page containing book reviews, book news, author interviews, and various other book related topics. The site in its current form is still being maintained as a hobby and labour of love.

After completing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto in 1996 I began working in a field unrelated to books. But the opportunity to write reviews for a local newspaper has let me indulge my avocation. From there it was one small step to the Internet, and the rest of the story is now online.

 Editor: Alex Good (e-mail)