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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
CANADIAN WRITER ELIZABETH Hay has been justly praised for her strong yet lyrical descriptions of the Canadian countryside, her evocation of its loneliness, its treachery, and its beauty. But the reason such personalising of the landscape showcases hADVERTISEMENTer talent so well is precisely because she's in the business of revealing psychological insights. Marrying the outer world with the...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Some pics from the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, which ran from July 16 - 19 in Moose Jaw. (Photos by Iden Ford/Courtesy of Dundurn Press.) Authors Maureen Jennings and Elizabeth Hay. (Note that Hay, possibly anticipating a lull in the festival, appears to be carrying a book of word searches.) Globe and Mail book editor Martin Levin [...]
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Elizabeth Hay has a new fan: right-wing political commentator Barry Cooper. In a Calgary Herald column this week devoted to the ever-popular subject of summer reading, Cooper recommends Hay’s Late Nights on Air. It’s easy to dismiss this story of people working at the CBC as a nostalgic, professionally Canadian, faux nationalist cliche. It’s not. Nice to see [...]
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
... nominees such as Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach , Rawi Hage’s IMPAC-winning De Niro’s Game , and Elizabeth Hay’s A Student of Weather . But then, canon-building is really about being counter -counter-intuitive, anyway. Read the Globe piece here . BTW: Back in November, 2001, Q&Q took a close look at the evolving nature of the CanLit canon. Read Stephen Smith’s feature article here . As a further...
