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October, 2007
The Ideal Weight and Heft
October, 2007
An Author’s Wild Ride
October, 2007
Copyright’s Rationales
October, 2007
Six Cures for Literary Amnesia
March, 2008
Promoting Books in an “Added Value” World
March, 2008
The Prosecution: May 9
March, 2008
Leaving in the Blank Spaces
March, 2008
A Textual Excursion Around the Annex
June, 2008
Dry Water
June, 2008
Al Purdy – The Voice of the Land
June, 2008
Artful Agenting
June, 2008
Scream
September, 2008
Salon des Refusés at the Gladstone
September, 2008
Profile of Coach House Books
September, 2008
The Heavy Cold-War Eye of the Konvas 35
September, 2008
Hidden in Plain Sight
September, 2008
Cypress
September, 2008
Throwing Books Through Flaming Hoops
September, 2008
Kids Can Day at TINARS for Tots
October, 2008
Photos from The Word On The Street
October, 2008
Profile of Pivot at the Press Club
October, 2008
Photos from Opening Night of the Rowers Pub Reading Series
October, 2008
Profile of Artist Charles Pachter
October, 2008
Canzine 2008
November, 2008
Profile of Napoleon & Company
November, 2008
TSAR Fall Launch
December, 2008
Profile of the Rowers Pub Reading Series
December, 2008
The Girls' Club
December, 2008
Photos from TINARS for Tots Extravagant Holiday Bonanza
December, 2008
The Best Game on the Page
December, 2008
Beaujolais, Books and Barbecues
December, 2008
The Nameless Holiday
January, 2009
Profile of Jack MacLeod
January, 2009
Photos from the Launch for Snakes & Ladders by Shaun Smith
February, 2009
Profile of Seen Reading
February, 2009
Photos from the Launch of Misunderstandings Magazine
February, 2009
Profile of Pembroke Publishers
March, 2009
Telling Tales in Westfield Heritage Village
March, 2009
Profile of This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
March, 2009
Amphibian
March, 2009
Launch for Stripmalling, at TINARS
March, 2009
Spring Stampede
March, 2009
Freedom in the Prison
March, 2009
Profile of The Moving Pen Workshop
April, 2009
Helen Walsh & TOK 4
April, 2009
THE SAWCHUK SESSIONS
May, 2009
Shoot First ... Ask Questions Later
May, 2009
The Tara Michelle Ziniuk Experience
June, 2009
Billy Mavreas
June, 2009
Jacob McArthur Mooney answers rob mclennan's questions
June, 2009
mr. mclennan comes to town
June, 2009
"Brained & Greased" and "Riding the Yonge line North"
June, 2009
A Cold Season in Shanghai
June, 2009
They're Shameless
June, 2009
Keeping the Lead Sharp
June, 2009
Literature for Life
June, 2009
"Adapt or die, young Jedi"
June, 2009
The Book is Dead: A Literary Festival?
June, 2009
How Will We Kiss?
June, 2009
Stet
June, 2009
Mind & Life: Accounting for Dennis Lee
July, 2009
Who's Your Daddy: The Interview
July, 2009
Derek McCormack answers rob mclennan's questions
July, 2009
LOUDER THAN BOMBS: NOW HEAR THIS! IN PROFILE
August, 2009
Open Bar 2: Rebecca Rosenblum
August, 2009
FADE TO BLACKOUT: talking turkey with John Goldbach
August, 2009
Michelle Berry answers rob mclennan's questions
August, 2009
Jacqueline Larson answers rob mclennan's questions
September, 2009
The Future of Publishing
September, 2009
The Word On The Street
September, 2009
Look Who’s 30
September, 2009
30 Questions with This Ain't The Rosedale Library on their 30th Anniversary
September, 2009
The Audacity of Hip Hop
September, 2009
Land of a thousand CanLit anthologies
September, 2009
Alexandra Leggat answers rob mclennan's questions
October, 2009
Sean Dixon answers rob mclennan's Questions
October, 2009
Emily Schultz answers rob mclennan's questions
October, 2009
Michael Turner: "Everything I have goes into everything I do."
October, 2009
Lake, oh pure contradiction
October, 2009
Generation Y Rules? Munday's Quarter-Life Crisis Seems To Think So
November, 2009
"It just made sense to me..." Shannon Bramer
November, 2009
Photos! Anansi Girls at The Ossington
December, 2009
Melanie Janisse on her beloved Lake Erie, its legends and her poems
December, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 11:30 a.m.
December, 2009
Duty Free
December, 2009
Limit and Change:
December, 2009
Not Your Mother's Library
December, 2009
Alex Boyd answers rob mclennan's questions
January, 2010
New Year’s Resolutions: CanLit Edition
January, 2010
Dispatches from the Future Bakery
January, 2010
Sarah Pinder answers rob mclennan's Questions
January, 2010
The CN Tower
February, 2010
Lake, my pretty name
February, 2010
The Incident Report:
March, 2010
Losing My Religion: The Andrew Kaufman Interview
March, 2010
Concrete Trees and Animal Effigies
March, 2010
21st-Century Editing with The Book Oven
March, 2010
The Poetic World of Karen Solie
March, 2010
Notes toward a Cognac Topic
March, 2010
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Bookstore
March, 2010
Of Swallows, If Pheasants and the Toronto New School of Poetry
March, 2010
Reading and Writing Glengarry County: writing the Long Sault hydro electric project
April, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Nathan Whitlock
April, 2010
Dear Book Launch, can we be better friends?
April, 2010
Callings and Vocations
April, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Joey Comeau
April, 2010
Interview: "Why (?) Poetry" at Indigo
April, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Julie Wilson
May, 2010
Spring, and all
May, 2010
Curb Dreams
May, 2010
The Evolution of an Independent Bookstore
May, 2010
Building Relationships at TCAF 2010
May, 2010
Getting Lost on Purpose: Stroll Book Launch at Lula Lounge
May, 2010
Anansi and Coach House Spring Books
May, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Dan Wagstaff
May, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Bill Douglas
June, 2010
Valentine’s Day, the Royal York Hotel
June, 2010
Toronto the Good and Well Written
June, 2010
Coach House Spring Launch and Rope Letters
June, 2010
The Topography from Here
June, 2010
Springsong
June, 2010
Eye on the Prize
June, 2010
TTQ's Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Sheniz Janmohamed
June, 2010
Nights Below Front Street East
June, 2010
We Were Randomly Assigned Literature
June, 2010
TTQ's Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Sheniz Janmohamed
June, 2010
Opulent Poems: The Griffin Awards
June, 2010
TTQ'S Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Nathaniel G. Moore
July, 2010
Ben McNally's Summer Reading Presentation
July, 2010
TTQ'S Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Vincent Ponka
July, 2010
The Proust Questionnaire, with Evan Munday
July, 2010
The CanPub World Cup of Bookball
July, 2010
Taddle Creek: Summer 2010 Super Tour
July, 2010
Wide awake in High Park North
July, 2010
Kenk Under Glass
July, 2010
Two Poets in Belgium
August, 2010
Library worker by day, library socialite by night: The TPL is cool for more than its Air Con
August, 2010
On Literature For Life, with Tamara Shelly
August, 2010
Agent Provacateurs and the Semiotics of the Avant Garde
August, 2010
A Hillbilly Hootenanny... with Vampires
August, 2010
Walking Brun’s wick
August, 2010
G20
September, 2010
Canada’s Next Top Poet
September, 2010
THE CENTRE FOR SLEEP AND DREAM STUDIES
September, 2010
Alissa York Answers rob mclennan's Questions
September, 2010
To Do: Make List
September, 2010
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
September, 2010
The 21st Century Librarian
September, 2010
Two for the Road
September, 2010
Casa Mendoza
September, 2010
Writers’ Workshops in Toronto
September, 2010
The Words that Matter Most
October, 2010
Sound Structure: 35 Years of Brick Books
October, 2010
Sheila Heti Versus Toronto
October, 2010
IFOA 101
October, 2010
Vanessa Place at the Toronto New School of Poetry
October, 2010
Translating Pessoa: Winnett, Taddle, Garrison
November, 2010
A Shayna Maidel
November, 2010
Gutenberg Hide and Seek
November, 2010
Multiple Choices
November, 2010
Keep Your Eye on the Many Values of the Prize
November, 2010
Bookclub-in-a-Box: Facilitating Book Talk at Home and Abroad
November, 2010
Novel Writing for Chronic Procrastinators: A Guide
December, 2010
Literary insurance policy. Tassles, beads and bananas included.
December, 2010
Ben and Lynn's 45 Books in 45 Minutes: The Holiday Edition
December, 2010
The Best of Open Book 2010
December, 2010
Robin Muller on THE NIGHTWOOD
January, 2011
The Book of Brilliant
January, 2011
Bakka Phoenix Rises on Harbord Street
January, 2011
Planning the Imperfect Un-Book Launch
January, 2011
Mind Over Matter? Matter and Mind
January, 2011
The Winter Classic
January, 2011
Ninja Skills & Marmite Books
February, 2011
When Tattoos Get Serious Ink
February, 2011
Agent's Corner: Canadian Agent vs. American Agent: Is One Better than the Other?
February, 2011
Cro-Magnon Kids and David Letterman
February, 2011
Myna Wallin: Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar
February, 2011
Spearmint
March, 2011
Party Politics
March, 2011
Conflict of Interest: Canadian Music Week Does Canadian Literature
March, 2011
Eva Stachniak in conversation with Andrew J. Borkowski.
March, 2011
The Speakeasy Reading Series
March, 2011
Spearmint (Part Two)
March, 2011
A library in the palm of your hand. An artwork in the pages of your library.
April, 2011
The Conversation: Beth Follett with Ken Sparling

April, 2011
Help Wanted: Literary Agent to Capture The Zeitgeist (And To Appreciate Kanye West)
April, 2011
Old Places, Hemingway's Feet
April, 2011
Conflict of Interest: The State of Short Fiction in Canada (Part 5)
April, 2011
Who’s Your Audience, and How Are You Dazzling ‘Em?
April, 2011
Art Objects
May, 2011
HAIORI AND OBI BOWS
May, 2011
Type Turns Five
May, 2011
Sharing a Story for Children's Book Week
May, 2011
Tea, Crumpets, Stet
May, 2011
Forget CanLit, SportsLit Is Where It’s At
May, 2011
Dancing Seahorses
May, 2011
Luminato and Illuminating the Review
June, 2011
A Tale of Puck and Prospero
June, 2011
Smart Producers
June, 2011
Our History Is Your Kitsch
June, 2011
Ben and Lynn's 45 Books in 45 Minutes: Solid Summer Reading
June, 2011
rob mclennan's 12 or 20 Questions, with Danila Botha
June, 2011
The Death of Penmanship (and Penwomanship Too)
June, 2011
Revenge in the City
July, 2011
The Catharsis of Screaming
July, 2011
The News of the World of 1812
July, 2011
Exploring Words and Finding Memories
August, 2011
Tha Literary Life: Prophet Versus Profit
August, 2011
rob mclennan's 12 or 20 questions, with Matthew Remski
August, 2011
Open Book's Midsummer Reading Suggestions
August, 2011
Thorns, Bees & Benjamin: my treacherous trip to Berlin, Paris & Port Bou
August, 2011
32 Questions (Inspired by BookCampTO and 50 Cent)
August, 2011
Renovating Poetry: Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild
September, 2011
Planes, Trains, Ondaatje-mobiles
September, 2011
Conflict of Interest: Fully Loaded!
September, 2011
The TRB: A Torontonian Take on Books and Culture
September, 2011
The Circus is in Town
September, 2011
Can Youth, Can Lit. DEGT.
September, 2011
Four Questions for Deborah Barnett, Someone
October, 2011
The 29th Alcuin Society Awards Handed Out in Toronto Monday Evening
October, 2011
Conflict of Interest: How to Be Your Own Book PR Dream Team
October, 2011
The Ottawa International Writers Festival
October, 2011
All Hallow’s Reads from the Open Book Team
October, 2011
A Preview of Canzine 2011
October, 2011
Again at Type
October, 2011
Quillcast episode one: the art of book design
October, 2011
Is Your Book Idea Really That Original?
October, 2011
Profile: Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley
November, 2011
Wither (sic) the CanLit?
November, 2011
So You Think You Can Dance Write?
November, 2011
MFA Culture, Creative Writing and Zolf's Tolerance Project
December, 2011
Guido Lit
December, 2011
Profile of Mother Tongue Books, with questions
December, 2011
The pros (and sometimes pratfalls) of giving your books to the library
December, 2011
The Day The Earth Died and Ma and Pa Bookstores Rose!
December, 2011
The Best of Open Book 2011
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 1)
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 2)
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 3)
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 4)
January, 2012
Road Tripping with Writers
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 5)
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 6)
January, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 7)
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 8)
February, 2012
On Dickens and Digital Publishing
February, 2012
Let Movies Colonize Your Mind at Books On Film at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 9)
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 10)
February, 2012
A Profile of The Emergency Response Unit, with Questions
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 11)
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 12)
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 13)
February, 2012
Profile on AngelHousePress, with a few questions
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 14)
February, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 15)
February, 2012
Don’t know Zarganar? Joke's on you.
February, 2012
Keeping Ahead of Current Affairs
March, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 16)
March, 2012
Beyond writing with Iain Reid
March, 2012
Sellers & Newel: A New Place for Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books
March, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade Nine Winning Story, "Persistence," by Kathleen Chen
March, 2012
Night is a Shadow Cast By the World (Chapter 17)
March, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade Ten Winning Story by Jessica Kim
March, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade Eleven Winning Story by Tamara Southward
March, 2012
Good Egg: A Foodie’s Dream
March, 2012
Hamilton Gears up for GritLIT: March 28-April 1
March, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade Twelve Winning Story by Mik Opolski
March, 2012
Words From The Street: The March Madness Edition
March, 2012
Writers and Day Jobs: How Authors Make it Work
April, 2012
Threading the Stories
April, 2012
April Showers Poetry Across Canada: National Poetry Month 2012
April, 2012
A Magnet for All People: Martin Ahvenus's Village Bookstore
April, 2012
Beyond Diagnosis, with Erin Knight
April, 2012
First Books for Future Readers
April, 2012
On Poetry, with Cristina Rizzuto
April, 2012
Of Libraries, LongPens and Loot
April, 2012
Conflict of Interest: Heathers 2 (Starring Heather Birrell)
April, 2012
Conflict of Interest: Heathers 2 (Starring Heather Birrell)
April, 2012
Impress your Guests! Wayzgoose Balderdash
April, 2012
An Inside Look at TCAF 2012
April, 2012
Writers and Retreats: Pros and Cons
May, 2012
Profile on Collected Works, Bookstore and Coffeebar, with a few questions
May, 2012
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche
May, 2012
Conflict of Interest: Life is About Lynn Crosbie
May, 2012
Mom's the Word: Tips and Confessions from Writing Mothers
May, 2012
The Book Diet
May, 2012
The Therapy of Writing, with Leslie Shimotakahara
May, 2012
Jan Wong Comes Out Of The Blue, and Into The Black
May, 2012
It’s Time to Get Outside!
May, 2012
Profile on George Elliott Clarke, with a few questions
May, 2012
Through the Magnifying Glass: Grace O'Connell on Writing, Women and Magnified World
June, 2012
Judging a Book
June, 2012
“The Trees of Kleinsaltz” by Andrew J. Borkowski
June, 2012
Writing in the Family: Max Layton and Barry Callaghan on Can. Lit. Childhood
June, 2012
400+ Page Book City: The Place Where Old Schoolers and Long-Form Journalists Go to Die
July, 2012
Profile on Octopus Books, with a few questions
July, 2012
Filling in the Blanks: Photography, Inspiration and Max Dean’s Albums
July, 2012
Caretakers of Journeys
July, 2012
Christian Bök Makes his Poetry Come Alive
August, 2012
Glenn Patterson on Writing and Toronto
August, 2012
Jonathan Ball Gets Political
August, 2012
Bringing Books to Inmates
September, 2012
Profile on The TREE Reading Series, with a few questions
September, 2012
Conflict of Interest: I Know What You Did This Summer
September, 2012
Why Biography’s Rule: If Written With Care
September, 2012
Poolside with a Nobel Laureate: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
September, 2012
Word On The Street 2012
October, 2012
Profile of the AB Series, with a Few Questions
October, 2012
Of Publishers and Puppets
October, 2012
A Day at Kingston WritersFest 2012
October, 2012
Profile on Hoa Nguyen, with a Few Questions
October, 2012
Just the Right Type: A Bookstore with Community in Its Heart
October, 2012
How to IFOA
October, 2012
12 Minutes Ago: How to Use the Internet for the Good of Your Book and Other Subjective Publishing Obsessions
October, 2012
Open Book Recommends: The Chilly Fall Reading Guide
October, 2012
E-This: Self Published Ebook Authors Are Cashing Cheques
November, 2012
Conflict of Interest: You Can Handle The Truth… And so can you!
November, 2012
Automobiles and Literature
November, 2012
Bill C-!! (or Two Court Cases and a Change of Law)
November, 2012
A Fond Farewell to Dead (G)end(er) Magazine
November, 2012
Top Five Publishing Trends in the World According to Garp (and Dalt)
November, 2012
Conducting Experiments: Poets and Poetry at BookFest Windsor
November, 2012
The Last of its Kind 
December, 2012
Connecting to Creativity in Muskoka
December, 2012
Open Book Recommends: The Holiday Reading Guide 2012
December, 2012
When Keneally Was King
December, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade 7 Winning Story by Tamara Fuller
December, 2012
Write Across Ontario: Grade 8 Winning Story by Sydney Kondreska
December, 2012
Profile of Teksteditions, with a few questions
December, 2012
The Best of Open Book 2012
January, 2013
Reading Resolutions from Canadian Writers & Book Lovers
January, 2013
Literary London Life
January, 2013
Toronto: Great Idea
January, 2013
The Branding Checklist, Part 1
February, 2013
Much Ado About Housing: How a Writer with Wanderlust Made Stratford Home
February, 2013
Close Reading
February, 2013
Free For All - Canadian Copyright, Intellectual Property and What Happens Next: An Interview with John Degen
February, 2013
Poetry to Pillowtalk: The 14 Best Poems to Woo a Lover
February, 2013
Scribe, No Jive
February, 2013
Book of the Month Clubs Making a Comeback in the Toronto Indie Press Circuit
February, 2013
Profile of Gary Barwin’s serif of nottingham editions, with a few questions
February, 2013
Freedom To Read Week 2013
March, 2013
First Readers
March, 2013
A Poetry Place: How The Town of Cobourg Became Poetry Central
March, 2013
(R)age Appropriate
March, 2013
“What Reading Has Become”: derek beaulieu’s Upcoming exhibition, How to Read, in St. Catharines
March, 2013
How Exactly Did "Video Vixen" Lit Hit Toronto?
March, 2013
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Classic Canadian Children's Books, Old and New (Part One)
March, 2013
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Classic Canadian Children's Books, Old and New (Part Two)
April, 2013
How I Discovered Prince Edward County Literature
April, 2013
A VJ looks back, publishes forward
April, 2013
If These Walls Could Talk: The Story of Al Purdy's A-Frame and the Effort to Save the House that Built CanLit
April, 2013
Page to Podium
April, 2013
Profile of Open Letter: A Journal of Writing and Theory, with a few questions
April, 2013
Books Get Both a Push and the Squeeze at Luminato 2013
April, 2013
Kids Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Book trailers: What're they all about, Alfie?
April, 2013
Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Signs
April, 2013
Remixing My Book Consumption Habits
May, 2013
In the Underbrush: The Literary Tribes of Windsor
May, 2013
GET UP! STAND UP! On loyalty, community and our democratic voice.
May, 2013
A History of Gathering
May, 2013
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Do I Have To Trick You Into Reading This?
May, 2013
Profile on Influency Salon, with a few questions
May, 2013
%@&*! - Panels of a Journalist at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival
May, 2013
To Job, Or Not To Job?
May, 2013
In Praise of Free Stuff
June, 2013
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Some Sizzling Summer Reading "Kids' Can Lit" Picks
June, 2013
Profile of Suzannah Showler, with a few questions

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