Chris Benjamin’s Favourite Books of 2015
A little late, as has become my custom, here are the best books I read in 2015, in the order I read them [Click on the image to learn more about the book]:
Newfoundland Poet Mark Callanan in Atlantic Books Today
The following is an excerpt from a column about young writers in Atlantic Canada, written by Chris Benjamin and published in Atlantic Books Today in June 2015. This column focused on Newfoundland poet Mark Callanan: In the mid nineties Mark Callanan could have been a portrait of proto-teen, banging awkwardly at a guitar trying to […]
NBA Analytics article from Men’s Journal
The following is an excerpt from an article published by Men’s Journal in June 2015, called “The 4 Fallacies of NBA Analytics,” based on an interview with economist David Berri: In recent years, basketball fans and writers have shed heavy pixels and ink on the ascendancy of geeks over jocks in pro sports. Heavy number […]
Chris Benjamin’s Favourite 2014 Reads
As has become an annual tradition, here are the books I most enjoyed reading in 2014 [Click on the image to visit the book’s goodreads page]: Driven: How the Bathurst Tragedy Ignited a Crusade for Change by Richard Foot – A magazine assigned me this book to review. I’d never have read it otherwise. To […]
Great Wall
“Great Wall” is a short story commissioned by Halifax playwright and actor Michael McPhee as part of the Doppler Effect’s Cadimus Protocol, a trans-media art project that imagines a world where “environmental cataclysm forces vigorous regulation of humanity’s procreation rate in order to balance our ecosystem.” So far it includes works of theatre, visual art, […]
Room with a view
This story first appeared in Atlantic Books Today in Fall 2013: Author and publisher Lesley Choyce’s workspace offers an escape from the real world—but a window that frames the ocean view is essential.
A Halifax journalist’s suspenseful exposé on the Cuban Five
This story first appeared in Atlantic Books Today in 2013: With surgeon-like skill, Kimber dissects, bottom up, an injustice perpetrated at the highest US levels on Cuban patriots acting for their government with few financial resources in a hostile foreign country. The Cuban Five’s spy efforts were
Bookmark’s for sale
This story first appeared in The Coast on Jan 17, 2014: Atlantic Canada’s oldest indie bookstore seeks new ownership Halifax’s only independent adult bookstore is for sale, along with its Charlottetown counterpart. Bookmark is the longest running independent bookstore in Atlantic Canada.
Lorax Consumption
This story first appeared in The Coast on Mar 22, 2012: I don’t remember reading The Lorax when I was a kid. I read it to my kid now. But I’m not a Lorax purist. So, on a Friday afternoon I hit the Empire and paid my $13, got my 3D glasses in cellophane wrapper […]
Maritime artists address environmental issues
This story first appeared in The Coast on June 11, 2009: Laura Burke, Carla Gunn and Emily Vey Duke discuss their varying approaches to art and the environment.
