Last Saturday I made my way down the coast to the Great Northern Way Campus to take in Vancouver’s first incarnation of a Maker Faire. Many of the exhibits managed to incorporate art, engineering, reclaimed materials, and nostalgia. Take, for example, the deconstructed Furbies, even more disconcerting stripped of their synthetic hides, still myopically blinking [...]
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Huck Finn, the Fluid Text, and Cultural Critique
Many critics are up in arms about a certain Twain scholar’s recent decision to produce a bowdlerized edition of Huckleberry Finn. Most have invoked a quotation from Twain himself on the difference between the right word and the wrong one.
Overwhelmingly, people are protesting the violation of the definitive text. But the notion of a definitive [...]
TH and KF do TO
Last weekend, Hur Publishing converged on Toronto to take part in this year’s BookCamp, where we were typically ninja-like in our silence but took lots of notes. Here are some thoughts on the sessions we attended.
9:30 Harlequin on starting a digital business from a print business
Harlequin’s session was (perhaps understandably) [...]
