Gatherings | Issue 22

SMLTA Recommends: Jen Sookfong Lee, Liz Howard, Alicia Elliott, Canisia Lubrin, Dionne Brand, Jeanne Dielman, Tanis MacDonald, Nikki Reimer, 1366 Books, Lynda Barry, Kathy Fish

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What is your favourite film from 1973. I’m collecting a list of films to watch over the holidays.

Kathryn Mockler @themockler

What is your favourite film from 1973 if you have one?

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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, a memoir by Jen Sookfong Lee coming in January 2023.

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Unsettling Poetry: Land-Based Strategies for Generating Poems with Liz Howard - January 14, 2023 - The FOLD

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Scientists finally know why we catch colds and flu in winter.

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Loblaws asks customers to tackle food insecurity and it did not go well, Blog TO

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Alicia Elliot on If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, CBC

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blake butler @blakebutler

Everything you write has taken your entire life to write

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A conversation mediated by art with Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand, The Yale Review

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Breaking our cultural silence around menopause by Sue Carter in Catapult Magazine

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On writing the zero draft:

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD

Zero draft is a critical part of the academic writing process. But a lot of folks ignore it and run into all sorts of problems including the writer's block. Here's what a zero draft is and why you should write one:

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman tops the Sights and Sounds Poll

Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag

For the first time in 70 years the #SightAndSoundPoll has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same, writes Laura Mulvey

bfi.org.ukThe greatest film of all time: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesFor the first time in 70 years the Sight and Sound poll has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same.

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Digital habits and the environment, The Walrus

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Tanis MacDonald tells us about her book of essays Straggle

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Nikki Reimer’s essay “Grief Turns Us All Into Vultures”

Nikki “In THIS pandemic?!” Reimer @NikkiReimer

Me, my baby brother, and the ways we continue to know each other even after death

OrderoftheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath

NEW ARTICLE Grappling with grief, neurodivergence, and what might have been. Read ‘Grief Turns Us All Into Vultures’: https:/www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/grief-turns-us-all-into-vultures/ https://t.co/xy14CxdxU0

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Drawing Together with Lynda Barry!

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Stuart Ross will be editing Guernica Editions experimental fiction imprint 1366 Books! Exciting!

Guernica Editions @guernica_ed

TORONTO—Guernica Editions is pleased to add an exciting new imprint to its lineup: 1366 Books will be edited by Cobourg-based writer and editor Stuart Ross and will explore the boundaries of fiction, the short story, and the novel. . . Find the full press release on our Facebook!

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On Literary Success by Kathy Fish

On Literary "Success"

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The demise of Bookforum, The New Yorker

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Issue #22 of Send My Love to Anyone

December 2022 Gatherings

Lynne Tillman on Two Serious Ladies

Excerpt from The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman

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