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Why television writing has become the new home of verbal complexity – Oct. 7, 2016 Guardian article
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn Oct. 7, 2016 Guardian article is entitled: “Why television writing has become the new home of verbal complexity: The high literary style of Woolf and Nabokov was long ago condemned as elitist and replaced by bland accessibility. But there is now a return to verbal complexity, not least in the unlikely medium of TV.” Good […]
Daniele Rossi of the Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA) recently attended the Nordic Stuttering Seminar 2016 in Finland
/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - J. Pill, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ll be presenting a workshop on Oct. 22, 2016 in Toronto at a conference of the Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA), on the anniversary of the 25th anniversary of its founding. The association, of which I’m a co-founder, was launched at the first-ever national meeting go people who stutter, which was held in Banff, Alberta in […]
Comments from Graeme Decarie regarding Brexit
/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillGraeme Decarie: Jaan, Can you please send me a copy of my chapter 1? Or tell me how to find it on the MCHS site? The one on my word pad is all messed up. I just had a post from Phillippa (McGowan). She’s Jim McGowan’s eldest child – and she’s my goddaughter – whom […]
Chapter 3: My family fled as refugees
/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - J. Pill, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillClick here to access BBC Estonia country profile > Chapter 3 of my Autobiography Story is concerned with my family’s refuge story – which as it turns out, is a story about how I ended up in Canada and among other things helps to explain my interest in military history. A couple of previous posts […]
Soviets deported over 7,000 women, children, and elderly people from Estonia on June 14 to 17, 1941
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillPrevious posts about Estonia (from where members of my extended family left as refugees in 1944) can be accessed here > A June 14, 2016 Estonian World article is entitled: “Pictures: Deported Estonians in Siberia.” The opening paragraphs read: In the summer of 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a result […]
The story that claims that bombing will solve the problem of ISIS is a story that leads us nowhere
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA basic point that Nicolas Hénin makes in Jihad Academy (2015), a study that is featured at a previous post, is that some news stories lead us astray. With any story, it’s useful to consider where the evidence leads, and to go with the story that is based upon the strongest evidence, rather than with the story […]
The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China (2015) addresses the translation of hegemonic discourses
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA blurb at the Toronto Public Library website for The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China (2015) by Luigi Tomba notes that, “At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.” China’s political and social change In The Government Next Door (2015) Luigi Tomba, addresses how stories are […]