Results tagged “jamesgrainger”

The internet, many people like to remark offhand, is killing print. With a twenty-four-hour news cycle better served by the instant response times of broadcast and online outlets (including the online arms of print publications who will run those same stories in the next morning's paper), e-books finally taking off, and shortening attention spans that prize bells and whistles over the sedate pleasures of slow perusal, the old-fashioned printed word is facing hard times. Or so this line of thought goes.

A strong sense of place is a familiar enough characteristic of Canadian literature. Yet, it's still common to think of Toronto as, in the words of Bert Archer, "a city that exists in no one's imagination." Contrasting this notion are a couple of interesting dissections of Toronto's literary landscape in the latest edition of Open Book Toronto's online magazine.