[caption id="attachment_13425" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/friedwontons4u/"][/caption]         Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this column exploring Montreal's literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. There’s a kind of permanence to downtowns that isn’t real. The heavy stone buildings, the skyscrapers, the motion and grime of certain corners. And it’s that way with the downtown areas of most cities. But downtowns, like cities generally, have a ...

Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this column exploring Montreal's literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. I love Pointe-Saint-Charles. It’s one of those neighborhoods where one can walk down the street and feel history all around. Not the history of movers and shakers, not the men of industry or past glories of our city but the common person’s history: generations of kids who’ve ...

[caption id="attachment_12395" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Photo by Aguayon soy tu res"][/caption] Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this column exploring Montreal's literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of English Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. Montreal writer Terri Vlassipoulos’ lovely short story collection Bats or Swallows contains stories set in cities and countries all over the world, but mainly in eastern Canada. In “The Occult,” we hear about Hannah, ...

Photo by Cynnerz Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this bi-weekly column exploring Montreal's literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. Available only online here, I overcame my usual distaste for reading books on my computer once I started into this fascinating gothic tale of 19th century Montreal. As the story opens, Dr. Thorborne is visited by a patient in his clinic, ...

Photo by McDemoura Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this bi-weekly column exploring Montreal's literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of English Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. Even at the height of summer, we Montrealers  never take a gorgeous balmy day for granted. At this time of year, winter resides in each of us like the residue of a dream we once had, recalling its tactile sensations on our ...