Articles by Brian Joseph Davis
The Auto Summarized Review: Mitt Romney's No Apology
By Brian Joseph Davis | October 11th, 2011
300 words or less chosen randomly from a book. Any opinion expressed is completely that of the computer. — Read More
Auto Summarized Review: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Julian Assange
By Brian Joseph Davis | October 5th, 2011
300 words or less chosen randomly from a book. Any opinion expressed is completely that of the computer. — Read More
Publicist Confidential
By Brian Joseph Davis | October 4th, 2011
The business of being a publicist for a literary press takes a barely describable synthesis of skills. Like being able to convince bar owners to give up choice event real estate to experimental poetry and fiction — Read More
How Not to Complain About Nuit Blanche
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 28th, 2011
When something is “free” we think it gives us permission to do many things, one thing being to complain excessively. As a survivor of the other side of Nuit Blanche—the geek in the cage side—I ask you to consider the following answ — Read More
Dictionary of the Doomed!
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 26th, 2011
Liisa Ladouceur consummates her love of both Goth and grammar with the new Encyclopedia Gothica. Along the way she learned Goth ain't such a bad way to grow old after all. — Read More
Froggy Notion
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 21st, 2011
We check in with Jenny Sampirisi about Croak, her new biologically-themed collection of poetry from Coach House Books. — Read More
Ten Possible Reasons Michel Houellebecq Went Missing
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 19th, 2011
The French novelist and noted misanthrope disappeared before a European book tour last week. We think we know why. — Read More
Roger & Me
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 13th, 2011
Few film critics become celebrities. One of them is Roger Ebert, who drops by Indigo tomorrow to sign copies of his new book. — Read More
Errol Morris and Re-creationism
By Brian Joseph Davis | September 12th, 2011
In teasing out the value of photographic evidence from “staged” Crimean War photographs to the Abu Ghraib snapshots, Morris's new book shows he's as interested in how we come to believe we know the facts as much as the facts themselves. — Read More
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Society Snaps: Eric S. Margolis Foundation Launch
Kristin Davis moved Toronto's philanthroists to tears ... then sent them all home with a baby elephant - Read More