January 2014 - Christopher DiRaddo

Epigraph

January 26, 2014March 2, 2014 ChrisBooks, Pluto, Writing

On Friday I got the approval to use the quote I wanted for my epigraph. It’s a line from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how […]

Copyedits

January 23, 2014March 2, 2014 ChrisPluto, Writing

The pace of the New Year is staggering. Between work and preparations for the book there doesn’t seem to be much time for anything else (although I am doing my best to squeeze in as much in as possible). The […]

The cover

January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 ChrisBooks, Pluto, Writing

Last night I took Vincent Fortier out for dinner to thank him for allowing us to use his photograph for Pluto’s cover. We met up at Barbounya, a Turkish restaurant on Laurier West, and ate stuffed calamari, ceviche and fried […]

First interview

January 3, 2014March 2, 2014 ChrisBooks, Pluto, Writing

I had my first interview for the book last night. It was with Rob Sherren of the Montreal Review of Books. We met on one of the coldest nights of the year and sipped whiskey in the back of Sky […]