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I recently started freelancing for an Internet content provider, but providing them with content has left me strangely devoid of my own: My apologies for missing my “day” here last week. I wanted to post a lighthearted, comedic piece about obituaries. It didn’t work out.

This week, to streamline the process (notice the newly acquired corporate terminology), I have decided to post in point form.

-Last week, I spoke with the lovely Joyce Scharf about her first book, a children’s fantasy novel, Grace and the Ice Prince. Watch for the interview in the July Montreal Review of Books.

-This week, I’m reading a Jacques Poulin book in translation, also for review. I only mention this, because until last week, I’d never heard of him, in spite of his having been selected for Canada Reads in 2005.

(Or perhaps because of his having been selected for Canada Reads in 2005. That year I was completely overwhelmed by a cranky baby. I was too frazzled to listen to the radio. Or read the paper. Even the obituaries.)

I assume that you’re better informed than I am, but just in case you aren’t, don't forget to read Poulin before you die.

Best regards,

Your eternally devoted content provider

p.s. Fellow Montrealers (including Tamara!), the St-Jean deadline for the New Quarterly Montreal issue is fast approaching.

p.p.s. There's a non-fiction reading tonight at Boa Bar that looks good. 9pm, St.-Laurent and Maguire.