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At long last, here is the finished dissertation. 283 pages, 131 footnotes, 3 appendices, 82, 954 words. Defended successfully on April 5, 2017, and now available in the University of Ottawa Research database: Make Contact: Contributive Bookselling and the Small Press in Canada Following the Second World War

Danny Snelson‘s students at Northwestern have been writing some of Aram Saroyan’s minimalist poems on streets and sidewalks and other bits of infrastructure with chalk. What a lovely project! Chalk Saroyan View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chalk Saroyan (@chalksaroyan) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chalk Saroyan (@chalksaroyan)Continue reading “Chalk Saroyan”

It was very kind of Ben Ladouceur to ask me some questions about Apt. 9 and small press things, and to let me ramble on in my answers. Thanks Ben, and thanks Open Book for publishing it! The Same Aspirations Persist: An Interview with Cameron Anstee, editor of Apt. 9 Press “In 2016, three ofContinue reading “Interview: Open Book, Ben Ladouceur”

I was putting this link aside to go back to later, and realized that I should really just share it publicly. It looks like a wonderful project from The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild’s Ottawa Valley Chapter: CBBAG Ottawa: Books Arts

Farewell etaoin shrdlu, a short documentary from 1978 about the final day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times (July 2, 1978).

A short film from the 1970s, produced by the Bedfordshire Record Office, about paper marbling by Cockerell in England.

Following my habit of the previous two years, I’m going to post another round up of things literary and academic from the past year. I suspect these will be interesting documents for me someday, looking back, but don’t expect anyone else to read them. Ignore at will. On the academic front, I have just aboutContinue reading “Year in Review | 2016”

Congratulations to Nelson Ball for winning the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Small Waterways, a book I am deeply proud to have published through Apt. 9 Press in 2015. Congratulations also to Marilyn Irwin and Lillian Nećakov for being shortlisted for the same award for their books published by Apt. 9! Congratulations also to KlaraContinue reading “Nelson Ball wins the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award!”