The Matrix Interviews

Allen, R.E.N. and Carr, Angela (editors)

ISBN 10: 0919688861 / ISBN 13: 9780919688865

Edité par D.C. Books, Montreal, 2001

A propos de cet article

No. 8 in a series of Moosehead (annual) anthologies. These 182 pages feature 16 interviews with well known writers, some from as early as 1975. Many of the interviewers are also writers. The last page is a photo key to the writers who appear in the front cover mosaic. The writers include : Amitav Ghosh, Neil Bissoondath, Martin Amis, Marie -Claire Blais, and Erin Moure. UNillustrated but there is a selected bibliography of each interviewee following page 174. Volume is clean and square and bright. Minimal wear, minimal soil. No names. No marks in text block. QUote (p. 100) : " ._._. I miss the place that way, which is very different. I mean, Kingston is home to me now. I've been there eleven years. My closest friends are there. The people I think of as family now, who aren't my family, are all in ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Matrix Interviews
• Éditeur: D.C. Books, Montreal
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0919688861
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780919688865
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature, Poetry and Essays

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Synopsis

An intertwined history binds Matrix and The Moosehead Anthology. Both appeared in The Eastern Townships of Quebec: Matrix in 1975 and the original Moosehead Review in 1977, now a regular release from DC Books. Here these three presses have converged to produce a selection of the Matrix interviews, a tradition from the early days of the journal and still a feature of it.

The interviewer is often a writer in these interviews. Their length, thoughtfulness, and comprehensiveness reflect this fact. Whether it is Mary di Michele interviewing Anne Carson, P. Scott Lawrence interviewing Neil Bissoondath, Terry Byrnes interviewing David Fennario, Carmine Starnino interviewing Michael Harris and Erin Moure, Victor Coleman interviewing Michael Crummey or Taien Ng-Chan interviewing Stephanie Bolster, there is quite often a sense of mutual interrogation of two writers talking while we listen.

Not all interviewers are novelists or poets. One of the best is Philip Lanthier, the original editor of Matrix, here represented by interviews with D. G. Jones and Robert Allen. Brent Bambury, who interviewed Martin Amis and Elaine Kalman Naves, who talked to Marie-Claire Blais, have reputations primarily as journalists. Robert Majzels was interviewed by Liane Moyes, a professor of language and literature at the Universite de Montreal. Most of the interviews follow the classic form, but for sheer originality, look at Taien Ng-Chanis whimsical three-part interview of Stephanie Bolster, and Corey Frostis intelligent and performative discourse with Gail Scott. Then there are the interviews in which there is a sense that two sensibilities are staking out their own ground: see the Carmine Starninois interview of Erin Moure and the Terry Byrnesi interview of fellow resident of Verdun, David Fennario.

À propos de l?auteur

General Editor Robert Allen is a psychologist and author who has written puzzle books for over 12 years. He is CEO of the Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children.

Angela Carr is the author of two poetry books, Ropewalk (2006) and The Rose Concordance (2009). As a translator, she translated Coit by Chantal Neveu (2012). Originally from Montreal, she now lives in New York City where she teaches creative writing. Her first book, Ropewalk, was nominated for the McAuslan First Book Prize. Carr is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Quebec Writers' Federation.

Keith Henderson was born in Montreal. Educated at McGill, Concordia, and the University of Toronto, he teaches English at Vanier College in Montreal. From 1990 to 1993, Henderson chaired the Equality Party of Quebec's committee on Canada's Constitution, and was chief architect of the EP's constitutional policy. He served as leader of the Equality Party from 1993 - 2003.