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Lit supp part 4

admin • November 3, 2008

todd frei Translating transparency I’m drifting through languages. My obsessions have turned to the names of things. I’ve stopped seeing actualities; rather, just forms of expression. It’s the order of words, how they fit into a system. And I step between. Arranging and rearranging orders. My adjectives are all over… Read More

Lit supp part 5

admin • November 3, 2008

_________________________________________ sarah mortimer Piano man His fingers were like children playing hopscotch across the keys. The envy of the playground, they hit every coordinate with magical ease, sparking notes like a match turns fire. It was impossible not to want to be inside of him; to wish to know what… Read More

Lit supp part 6

admin • November 3, 2008

_________________________________________ anna trowbridge Big Deal A good mile-and-a-half from the office, and I’m still stuck on that look given to me by the newest kid on staff. Stan was going around introducing us all and the whole time this guy was staring at me. Even Cheryl noticed and she doesn’t… Read More

Subverting subversive cinema

admin • November 3, 2008

Mike Hoolboom compiles conversations on creativity and filmmaking Read More

Pedestrian power

admin • November 3, 2008

Alexander Weisler chats with Walkable City author Mary Soderstrom about sidewalks, cities, and urban sprawl Read More

Lit supp part 3

admin • November 3, 2008

tracy wan Footnote: A Fairytale Sever where the gangrene has not spread, the underbelly of the skin already blue in places you crawled in unknowingly. Where the body is nude there are no lessons of illness, no remnants of tenderness. Lie in sheets small and partial, a mitten in a… Read More

The Literary Supplement

admin • November 3, 2008

Every year the Daily publishes a literary supplement featuring the creative writing of numerous McGill students. For the sake of space management, this year’s edition has been formatted on mcgilldaily.com according to the pages works were published on in the print edition of the Daily. All the photographs used in… Read More

Lit supp part 7

admin • November 3, 2008

nicholas cameron Anthems of a seventeen-year-old girl (an excerpt) January 14th, 2008 I’m not really sure how to start this. I mean like – I’ve had a bunch of these journals but I’ve always scrapped them halfway through. I get bored or don’t have enough time to write down all… Read More

Transsexuals in Transylvania

admin • November 3, 2008

For those of you who have seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show, you know it’s not about seeing Susan Sarandon in seventies lingerie. The movie aired at the Rialto over Halloweekend; it has become a launch pad for people to experiment with sexuality and gender in ways they might have… Read More

On the home court

Braden Goyette • November 3, 2008

Basketball tournament brings McGill students to the Filipino community Read More

The 30-day novelist

Aditi Ohri • November 3, 2008

National Novel Writing Month champions whirlwind creative output Read More

In defense of Jane Doe

admin • November 3, 2008

Shannon Stewart addresses the Pickton murders through poetry Read More

Do-it-yourself absurdity

Aaron Vansintjan • November 3, 2008

Marc Bell’s Illusztraijuns refutes comic conventions Read More

Spy vs. Spy

admin • November 3, 2008

New book reveals Larry Chin’s thrilling infiltration of the CIA Read More

Patti Smith dreams of horses

admin • November 3, 2008

Biopic captures the melancholy beauty of a punk rock icon Read More