David Homel in Conversation with Dragan Tororovic
31 January 2024
Watch David Homel's conversation and public reading with Dragan Todorovic
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Salon .ll. publishes book reviews, interviews, essays on writers, books, everything that books are about, and the world at large. We look for writing that is smart, succinct and timely. If you would like to contribute to Salon .ll., please send a query to info [a] lindaleith [dot] com with your proposal.
Photo: Contributing editors Annabelle Moreau and Marie-Andrée Lamontagne (left), with directrices littéraires Annie Heminway and Ève Pariseau (right), April 2012.
David Homel on CBC's The Bridge with Nantali Indongo
2 September 2023
On September 5th 2023, David Homel chatted with Nantali Indongo on CBC's The Bridge.
It’s All One Job: Bloomsday and the Literary Community Part II
Linda Leith
20 June 2023
On June 15th 2023, Linda Leith attended the Bloomsday 2023 Festival at the Atwater Library in Montreal. Linda took the stage to deliver a speech titled "It's All One Job: Bloomsday and the Literary Community." Part II
It’s All One Job: Bloomsday and the Literary Community Part I
Linda Leith
20 June 2023
On June 15th 2023, Linda Leith attended the Bloomsday 2023 Festival at the Atwater Library in Montreal. Linda took the stage to deliver a speech titled "It's All One Job: Bloomsday and the Literary Community." Part I
Where They Stood: The Publishing Story
Linda Leith
31 March 2023
Our recent title, Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal, came about thanks to a phone call from the Black Community Resource Centre.
Second-Hand Glory: Reading Undersong
Kenneth Radu
15 March 2022
Kenneth Radu's visit to Dorothy and William Wordsworth's cottage informs and enlightens his reading (and rereading) of Kathleen Winter's exquisite Undersong.
Matrix: the early years
Philip Lanthier
21 February 2022
Matrix Magazine has a long and varied history as one of Quebec's more prominent English-language literary magazines. Philip Lanthier tells its origin story.
Excerpt: I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through
Jack Hannan
21 October 2021
The skin rejoices. An excerpt from Jack Hannan's second novel, I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through.
Translate ... or transcreate?
Sophie Voillot and Leila Marshy
16 September 2021
The Philistine translator Sophie Voillot had a daring idea about how the novel needed to be translated. She and author Leila Marshy sat down to discuss their approach.
My Hockey Sweater (after Roch Carrier)
Endre Farkas
20 June 2021
Habs fever hit Endre Farkas as a small boy in Communist Hungary with the surprise arrival of a red wool sweater with a CH in the middle.
The French Connection
Norman Ravvin
18 June 2021
Jack Kerouac wrote several unpublished works in French. Norman Ravvin explores the seminal author's Quebec roots.
Living Elsewhere
Kenneth Radu
21 April 2021
Kenneth Radu dives into the layers of memory and displacement that is the story of Alina Dumitrescu's childhood in Communist Romania.
Darkness at Noon
Lukas Rowland
18 January 2021
Watching an insurrection from afar is not all it's cracked up to be. Lukas Rowland contemplates the chaos in Washington and if he'll ever be able to go back home again.
Thinking outside the box
Lisanne Gamelin
9 December 2020
What's the take away here? Lisanne Gamelin tackles the latest language kerfuffle in Quebec.
What Price Peace?
Dave Cavanagh
19 October 2020
Dave Cavanagh, a student journalist in 1970, looks back on the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis.
Remembering the Referendum
Carolyn Marie Souaid
8 October 2020
Would Carolyn Marie Souaid's marriage survive the 1995 Quebec referendum? A lot was on the line 25 years ago.
A Funeral in the Time of Covid
Norman Ravvin
24 August 2020
Funerals in Covid times take on a special character. Norman Ravvin writes about what a Jewish funeral is like now, a theme he considers on Polish ground in his recent novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything.
Lebanon: No Going Back
Carolyn Marie Souaid
12 August 2020
Carolyn Marie Souaid remembers a country of promise and hope, but also a land of despair and ruins.
The Worst that Could Happen
Marianne Ackerman
2 June 2020
The backstage story of Marianne Ackerman’s hit comedy Triplex Nervosa, from kitchen table to opening night and beyond.
Flattening the Curb
Eric Deguire
31 May 2020
Eric Deguire explores how a television program can be a perfect match for these sad and strange times.
The Importance of Reading Phillip Ernest
Kenneth Radu
20 May 2020
Phillip Ernest has written two extraordinary and unique novels that have few comparisons in literature. Kenneth Radu explores the both real and imagined horrors found in The Vetala and The Far Himalaya.
