Kate's Book Blog

After a long hiatus, I've decided to revive my book blog, but I'm doing so on my own website. Please visit me there . I look forward...

Salman Rushdie on the possibilities film has opened up for writers of fiction: As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movie...

I'll be reading one of my favourite Adrienne Rich poems at the below event this evening. All are welcome to attend!

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of discussing the life and work of poet and activist Adrienne Rich with Michael Enright on CBC Rad...

I had a lovely walk along the Humber River today. The snapshots below were all taken within a mile or so of L.M. Montgomery's Toronto ho...

The only authors whose books I was specifically looking for were Louis Auchincloss (a lawyer-writer about whose work I intend to write a pa...

(cross-posted from law.arts.culture ) “International crime fiction” can be an unhelpful label, given how often people use it simply to denot...

(cross-posted from law.arts.culture ) I recently reconnected with a childhood friend on Facebook, and she reminded me that, at the age of te...

(cross-posted from law.arts.culture ) In a previous post, I wrote of lawyer-writers who successfully pursued simultaneous legal and literary...

(cross-posted from law.arts.culture ) Poetry and law may seem to some as incommensurable as dancing and architecture . Not so, according to ...