It's time for my annual "Best Books I Read Last Year" list, this time featuring a dozen works of poetry, novels, nonfiction and anthology. As usual, these books didn't necessarily come out in 2010; that's just when I read them. This year, you should too. Happy reading!

Chris Benjamin



Poetry:

George Elliott Clarke is a master of story and language; Whylah Falls is drama in guttural verse, suspenseful and rhythmic to the last page.


Nonfiction:

Our world is losing cultural diversity as fast as...
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Hi folks,

This year Canada Reads is letting the public decide on the top 40 must-read novels of the past decade. As a new novelist, my fervent hope is that my book get noticed, read, talked about, and through Canada Reads CBC has created the perfect avenue for that to happen.

Please take a moment to nominate Drive-by Saviours for the top 40 list. Go to http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/2010/09/canada-reads-top-40-contest-reader-recommendation-form.html and fill out your name, email, Dri...
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Lachutes

I'm writing from Lachutes, Quebec, about 40 km northwest of Montreal. A good friend of mine is Superintendent of a golf course here and he's putting me up. Tonight, (Thurs Oct 14), I read at 8:00pm in Montreal, at Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste Catherine W. There will be three writers reading tonight, starting at 7:30 pm. Also up will be Susan Gillis, author of Volta, and Claudia Coutu Radmore, author of A Minute or Two/Without Remembering. Hopefully more authors means more people, more ener...

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Hi folks,

Drive-by Saviours now has a Facebook fan page. Just click http://tinyurl.com/fbdbs and click the "Like" button to join.

Chris

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Roseway Publishing (an imprint of Fernwood Publishing), which is publishing Drive-by Saviours, has put up a web page for the novel.  Click on the Fernwood logo to see it. You can also find an excerpt from the first chapter there.

     


I have also created a myspace page and put up a clip of me reading from the first chapter, and some fusion music my brother created for a trailer we're working on. Click my face to listen:


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Hot off the e-presses from artist John van der Woude, here is the cover for Drive-by Saviours, which will be released this fall:



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