I'm very bad at promoting, particularly in this space (or doing much of anything in this space lately...that'll change!) but I hope everyone made it out to a few Scream events. It's over now and so I can dedicate a bit more time to this here site.

First, an interview with Cameron Anstee (done by rob mclennan).

Second, a review of Martha Baillie's book The Incident Report:

Interestingly though, the narrator weaves these reports next to her own description of herself and her life, her family, her job – she lists the mundane tasks she has to carry out daily, describes her boss, re-tells stories about her father. Further, the structure of the book then creates a fragmentary story that deepens the paranoia and loneliness of both her and the “crazy” strangers. Each person exists only in brief bursts, tiny portraits; the reader is given simply the incident in question without even reflection or judgment from the narrator. This same objectivity is applied to herself – there is very little emotional reflection from the narrator on her own life, but rather a straight-forward story of her own life’s events. By conflating the narrator and the characters of the incident reports, the text begins to blur the borders between sanity and craziness. The distance between the regular people and the “freaks” breaks down and the two become indistinguishable. Suddenly, the reader is asked what incidents they caused that day, each day.

A really great book that deserves to be picked up and mulled over!