I put together a slideshow for last Saturday’s event at Cabaret Cléo, where I spoke about the history of the Main and that block. The slideshow walks you down both sides of the street from the corner of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine during one afternoon in November, 1965. It uses photos taken from a […]
Well, once again there’s a plan to raze the historic (classified heritage at the federal level) block on the west side of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine St.I wrote an article for the Montreal Mirror that just appeared available here:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/052809/news2.html
If it weren’t for all the empty lots surrounding the block, and if they weren’t violating […]
(This is an expanded version of a blog post I wrote for Broken Pencil Magazine’s website this past summer.)
Despite what some readers thought, I think of my first novel, A Fine Ending, as a work of fiction. It certainly has a “non-fiction” aspect to it, in that a real time and place serves as the […]
Today, June 18, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of the 33RPM LP record. I’ve decided to mark the occasion with the following brief history of the LP’s invention and early years, adapted from a history of the record industry I wrote in 2003-2004.
A HISTORY OF THE LONG-PLAYING RECORD, copyright 2008 by Louis […]
Welcome to my blog! Who knows what will become of it — for now, it’s mainly going to be about my new novel, A Fine Ending, which you can read excerpts and deleted passages from elsewhere on this website.
I plan on eventually adding to the “Writing” section a lot more writing of mine from over […]