Bookmark Interview: Christopher Walsh: Under the Electric Sky

Calgary freelance journalist Christopher Walsh took a page out of the Tom Wolfe’s bible on New Journalism a couple of years back, quitting his job as a reporter at an Alberta newspaper to run off and join the travelling carnival. The result is a fascinating and lively account of one of the biggest and longest running carnivals in Canada, the Bill Lynch Shows.

Walsh’s book is entitled Under the Electric Sky: The History of the Bill Lynch Shows, published by Nimbus Press.  The 31 year old Walsh joined the Bill Lynch carnival for a summer to study carnies and the lifestyle first hand, taking the writer back to his hometown of Halifax. Walsh appeared on Bookmark in May, 2011, talking about his adventures and the dying form of entertainment known as the carnival. You can hear that interview with clicking on the Title of this Blog Entry.

After Bill Lynch passed away in 1972, the Bill Lynch Shows were taken over by Soggy Reid. He maintained the Lynch tradition of showing charity to the less fortunate throughout the Maritimes. Several years after buying the carnival, Reid was devastated when an accident on one of the carnival’s rides killed a patron. The carnival almost folded as a result. However, the carnies all rallied around Reid and the carnival persevered, still doing its rounds to this day. 

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Bookmark Interview: Timothy Taylor: The Blue Light Project

Vancouver’s Timothy Taylor is an award-winning and best-selling novelist who likely has struck literary gold with his new novel The Blue Light Project, published by Knopf Canada. On the one hand, this book is a serious novel with big ideas woven through it, such as our fascination with fame and anti-fame and society’s repeated sacrificing of celebrities as a sort of cultural ritual, the meaning of art as a political force, of underground street culture and modern-day terrorism.Seo bookmarking This also is an edgy suspense story, centred around a man who takes hostage an auditorium full of children attending a television talent contest. En route to the story’s amazing conclusion, we meet a beautiful woman and former star athlete still celebrated only for a moment of glory many years before, a broken down journalist whose stellar career crashed and burned when he got caught inventing a source for one of his stories, and the strange street artist known as Rabbit with his almost super-hero abilities in racing across the city’s rooftops in true Parkour fashion.

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 Timothy Taylor, a one-time banker and self-taught writer, visited Edmonton recently on a Seo  book .tour, returning to the city where he received his degree in economics from the University of Alberta. Taylor talked to Bookmark about the characters that populate The Blue Light Project and the big ideas that run through this engaging story. You can listen to that interview by clicking on the Title of this Blog Entry.

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