I never get tired of daydreaming about getting a place like this someday: small, lots of woodgrain, self-contained, and space to take a nap! courtesy of Jeremy Levine Design
“With Canada Reads, the CBC is bottom-feeding on culture.” That’s the title of author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s opinion piece in The Globe and Mail. She smacks down the shallow ...
Mexico’s insanely violent national drug war hit home for me over this past December and January. I lost a friend, Ximena Osegueda, who had only just arrived to live and study in the beach town ...
I’m going to keep running with this theme about the importance of critical thinking to writers, so here’s a brainy (at times pompous-sounding) piece featuring 30 mostly-British writers ch...
Public Relations reps grapple with a lot of difficult, high-stress situations. I totally respect their ability to work under fire. However, I’ve begun to notice a decline in critical thinking i...
I’m a huge fan of The Verdict (1982), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Paul Newman. It’s not the kind of movie that’ll have you at the edge of your seat, but it’s probabl...
US President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address last night, making some grumpy-looking old white dudes clap wildly — while some other grumpy-looking old white dudes cro...
I really appreciate when the arts media provide useful commentary on prodigious but underexposed writers. Too often, arts editors try to disguise celebrity gossip or falsely celebratory press release...
And here’s why… via TED Read up on what SOPA and PIPA are, and how these US bills threaten the internet.
For some reason, I’ve encountered this phrase a few times this weekend: “The pattern in the carpet”. It refers to a story by Victorian-era author Henry James, a writer whose work ha...
I was 23 when I packed up my few worldly possessions and left Ontario for the West Coast. I jettisoned everything I could: a futon, 90% of the books I’d accumulated as a Carleton U English Lit ...
As posted yesterday on JohnAugust.com, the Big Fish screenwriter/burgeoning app chef unveiled Bronson Watermarker — an app that embeds unique watermarks in PDF files so screenwriters or produce...
At the end of 2009, I posted a writing roundup looking back on the projects I worked on that year. It was a big transition period for me: from balancing a not-so-demanding gig and freelancing as a jo...
A little bit of cross-promo here, as Twenty-Something Theatre will be producing my next play (tentatively titled Us & Everything We Own) in 2013 — with a public reading in May of 2012. This...
Louis CK (aka Louis Szekely) owes much of his success to creating a pitch-perfect brand as a self-aware, embarrassingly honest, overweight and entitled white 40-something American male. He’s cr...
I grabbed this from a 2010 Guardian post that was inspired by Elmore Leonard’s semi-famous “Ten Rules of Writing” essay. Why am I posting it so long after it made the rounds on the ...
As I’ve written before, I feel pretty awkward about the whole “asking your audience for money up front” thing. It makes me squeamish, but I recognize it’s a growing necessity ...
I can’t remember the first time I encountered Jim Henson’s Muppets. To me, they seem to have always existed. I loved the original Muppet Show series when I was a kid. I watched Muppet Bab...
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