Go to The Globe and Mail

 

Blogs

Featured:

Subscribe to RSS
In Other Words
In Other Words is the site blog for Globe Books. It is written by Peter Scowen and by guest bloggers from the literary world.
Entry archive:
 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:41 AM

Michael Thomas: Man gone offline

Brian Joseph Davis

In his pithy answer to our author question of the day, IMPAC Dublin award winner Michael Thomas states digital issues are not a concern of his. After looking at this week’s comments, I’m almost with him.

Thomas reads this Friday from Man Gone Down, which was called “A big, brave, heart-wrenching first novel” by Alice Greenway.

IOW: As a writer, what part of the Internet could you not live without. What part do wish would go away?

MICHAEL THOMAS: I e-mail sections of my current -- and I imagine future -- project(s) to my editor, Elisabeth Schmitz. The Internet is convenient, but I could live without it.

Latest Comments

Memories of Al Purdy's A-frame Nov 20, 2009 1:37PM EST

The Palin index Nov 18, 2009 5:32PM EST

Tweeting Tish Nov 18, 2009 5:32PM EST

Susan Holbrook: POETSMART™ Nov 18, 2009 1:45PM EST

Peter Unwin and the wolf Nov 17, 2009 12:48PM EST

Will the real frontrunner in the e-reader war please stand up? Nov 17, 2009 8:59PM EST

A. F. Moritz: 'Lines Written in Early Fall' Nov 13, 2009 2:06PM EST

The virtual Sasha Grey Nov 13, 2009 11:56AM EST

Latest posts from In Other Words

In Other Words Contributors

Peter Scowen

Peter Scowen is a communities editor with the Globe and Mail and is responsible for the Globe Books website. He is a veteran reporter and editor who has worked for a number of dailies and alternative weeklies in Toronto and Montreal. He is the author of Rogue Nation: The America the Rest of the World Knows.

 
 

Judith Fitzgerald

Judith Fitzgerald -- poet, editor and cultural critic with 30 works (including poetry, biography, anthologies and children's books) to her credit -- writes about poetry for In Other Words and is a contributing reviewer for this newspaper as well as a Poetry Fellow of the Chalmers Arts Foundation. Short-listed for (or recipient of) several major honours including the Fiona Mee, Trillium, Governor-General's Poetry and Writers’ Choice Awards (among others), she recently completed The Adagios Quartet. The ex-Torontonian now calls the Almaguin Highlands home.

 
 

Linda Leith

Linda Leith is the founder and artistic director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. The annual festival was the world's first multilingual (including English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Italian, Urdu...) books festival when it was launched in 1999. Linda's most recent book is Marrying Hungary (2008).

 
 

Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He's the co-founder of Joyland.ca and has written for Arthur Magazine, The Utne Reader, and Eye Weekly. He's the author of the books Portable Altamont (Coach House, 2005) and I,Tania (ECW, 2008), which Slate.com called "the book of your fever dreams."

 
 

Ben McNally

Ben McNally has been a bookseller in Toronto for more than 30 years and has been operating his own store, Ben McNally Books, in the heart of Toronto's financial district on Bay Street since September 2007. In partnership with the Globe and Mail, he co-ordinates the popular Sunday Authors Brunch Series at the King Edward Hotel, and has, for the past two years, been the bookseller at the International Festival of Authors.