Gatherings | Issue 19

Recommended readings, viewings, calls, events, and more from Send My Love to Anyone

Sep 04, 2022

technically I could live on nine hundred dollars a month. Nine hundred and ninety, actually. But what kind of a life would that be? It would be a life of counting pennies, scarcity. I could live. Maybe even comfortably. But this feeling of shame would never go away. I would still be ashamed that I’m not trying hard enough. Trying hard enough to bring it…

2 years ago

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Are All Booksellers Dreamers?

Send My Love to Anyone is thrilled to present a new column by Kirby: The First Time. The First Time: it’s like the first time you hear somebody’s voice and ask the record shop owner who it is and they reply, “Ella Fitzgerald.” There’s always a first time…

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Susan Mockler on CHCH!

Read an excerpt from Fractured: a Memoir in Issue 18

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It’s that time in the publishing process where, I’m on the hunt for blurbs!

I hate asking for blurbs.

To me, it feels like being a teen asking the popular kids to not only invite you to their party but also for them to pick you up and by your booze!

Phil Hall wrote about horror of writer Blurbs in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (thanks to Yvonne Blomer for sharing this piece).

What are your thoughts on blurbs as a writer and/or reader?

DICTEE turns 40!

Ken Chen @chen_ken

I've always wanted to write something that didn't quite exist: an accessible intro to Theresa Cha's DICTEE, which I read as an exorcism for the ills of colonial war. Thanks to @YaleReview for inviting me to celebrate the book's 40th bday. yalereview.org/article/chen-d…

H.B.

I love this one minute film. I always show it to my screenwriting classes. So much packed into a minute!

Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton

Vancouver Black Library opens in Chinatown youtu.be/v47TPvL6gx8 via @YouTube

youtu.beVancouver Black Library opens in ChinatownThe Vancouver Black Library, a space that serves as a community hub for people of colour as well as a place to borrow books, has opened its doors in Chinatow...

You’ve Probably Seen Yourself in Your Memories by Jacob Stern

“Rose City, City of Roses,” a short story by Casey Plett from I Dream of a Woman in Lit Hub

A new book by Gary Barwin

I’m reading this excellent 2013 collection, A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon, Translated by Yewon Jung and Inrae You Vinciguerra

Amazon.com: A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories (Library of Korean Literature, 05): 9781564789167: Young-Moon, Jung, Jung, Yewon, Vinciguerra, Inrae You, Vinciguerra, Louis: Books

Danny in London @TheDannyRamadan

This is something @john_vigna taught me once and I forever will thank him for it.

The Length of Earth’s Days Has Been Mysteriously Increasing, and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Issue #19 of Send My Love to Anyone

September 2022 Gatherings

”011109,” a snippet from Rebecca Fisseha's writing process

“Are All Booksellers Dreamers?” from The First Time, a regular column by Kirby

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