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listof films, bob, scott walker (ix), hip hop, u, yemeni, 1976 in sports, everett quinton, fazed, news, rap metal, single parent, overheardnew york, amazigh, josh richman, middle, jack straw., kirk taylor, emo, popular, thesopranos, ultramagnetic, essay, sean cory,
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I never read another Hardy Boys book. I didn’t read quickly, but I read all the time. Brits mostly: A A Milne, Enid Blyton, Hugh Lofting (Doctor Dolittle), G A Henty. A forgotten Canadian, John F Hayes, Rebels Ride at Night, Treason at York. I read Sports Illustrated nerds from cover to cover. Sports journalism remains the most engagingly written form of journalism. In High School it was Dickens, Austen and Shakespeare, every year, and I never bitched, although you were supposed to. And, thanks to my friend Walter Gordon, I was getting into Hesse, Sartre, nerds Camus, Anouilh, Kant, Kerouac, nerds Steinbeck, the Dylans, Thomas and Bob, Ezra Eliot and T S Pound. You have to read a gazillion books. But the ones you read when you're young are the ones that matter most. I waited a long time before writing. It’ s a tough job, you have to know a lot of stuff, and I was terrified, the word is not too strong, of not being good at it. In 1989 or ’ 90, when I was living in Fredericton, I entered a little fiction contest organized by the New Brunswick Writers’ Association.
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