Thank you to the editors of The Globe and Mail’s “Books” section for naming Walls: Travels Along the Barricades to their roster of the top 100 books of 2012. Walls shares the nonfiction list with 42 other books including titles by Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, Alain de Botton and Nahlah Ayed. And I’m especially happy to […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
November
23
“Wrapped in Chains”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Montreal blogger Mercedes Sharpe Zayas wrote an excellent essay about the l’Acadie fence on the website, Petite Mort. The post, titled “Wrapped in Chains,” recounts both the history of the fence and the community that erected it. She also discusses what, if anything, the fence represents. Again, I am amazed that a decades-old “feeble relic,” […]
Walls Excerpt in Reader’s Digest
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
If you open the current Reader’s Digest Canada – alongside “the most optimistic, tear-jerking, inspiring, unexpected, hilarious, brilliant and disarming moments of the year” – you’ll find a long excerpt from Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. The good people at RD did an excellent job piecing together different sections of Walls into a concise narrative […]
Walls on the Radio
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Here are links to a couple of radio interviews I did recently about Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. The first comes from CBC’s “Daybreak Alberta.” Host Russell Bowers and I talked about the book and about a short piece I wrote about fruit flies for the Canada Writes website. You can find the interview here. […]
November
19
Why I Voted for Chris Turner
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Last weekend, at an advance poll, I cast a ballot in the Calgary Centre federal by-election. I voted for Chris Turner of the Green Party. I want to tell you why. I was born in Calgary. It is the only city I’ve ever lived in and the only home I know. Not long ago, however, […]
November
16
“Bored of the Flies”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
My story about how fruit flies killed my childhood affection for science can be found on CBC’s Canada Writes page here. Apparently, the University of Calgary’s Biology department discontinued the “fly lab” not long after my graduation. Bastards.
November
15
Travel Writing Workshop in Vancouver
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Hello all. This month in Vancouver – in addition to my reading/discussion event with Carol Shaben and Deborah Campbell – I will be teaching a travel writing workshop. “The Art of Travel Writing” is part of Geist Magazine’s ‘Fall Workshop Series.’ The workshop runs on the afternoon of November 25th. For details and registration information, […]
November
13
Bringing Walls ‘home’ to B.C.
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
As a writer, I harbour a strong affection for British Columbia. Some of my first published writing appeared in the B.C. journals Prism International and Event. Vancouver-based Geist magazine published an excerpt from my first book. More than this, though, I felt like I was a part of a writing community on the other side […]
Review in The Coastal Spectator
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I will be heading to Vancouver soon to bring Walls to Left Coast readers. I will post details of my Vancouver event soon. In the meantime, here is a kind review of Walls that appeared recently in the The Coastal Spectator. The reviewer writes: … [A]t the heart of Di Cintio’s book lies the practice […]
“8 Male Writers I’d Want At My Side In A Bar Room Brawl”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I’ve made it onto a few “lists” this Fall, but none more fantastic (and unearned) than this one. Thanks to John Vigna and his misguided and exaggerated opinion of my badassedness. I only hope I never have to back any of this up. This list appears on the49th Shelf website here, but I’ve posted the […]
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