This Is Brilliant

As sort of a Canadian alternative to the Guardian’s “Writers’ Rooms” feature , Evie Christie has set up a blog called Desk Space , which spotlights pictures of Canadian writers’ desks alongside short interviews with the participants. So far Christie has featured poet and TSR fave Brenda Schmidt; poet, critic, train guy, and CanLit superhero Zach Wells; poet Paul Vermeersch; and critic and novelist Stephen Henighan, whose writing space is pictured. Upcoming Desk Space participants include Michael Winter, Tony Burgess (whose novel, Pontypool Changes Everything, has been adapted for film by Canadian maverick Bruce MacDonald; it premiers Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival), and another TSR fave, Claire Cameron (whose writing space is sure to involve, among other things, copious Post-it notes in various and sundry places ). Your humble correspondent, upon looking at the picture of Henighan’s writing room, was cons...