Last week I received in the mail the latest issues of several journals I subscribe to: English Studies in Canada 32.4 (December 2006), Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 32.2 (2007); Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33.2 (Summer 2008); and Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d’études cinématographiques 17.1 (Spring 2008). Each issue contains timely and provocative material: in ESC, a reader’s forum on “Popular Culture and the Culture of Research Funding,” edited by Julie Rak; in SCL/ELC, a special issue on “Poetics and Public Culture in Canada,” edited by Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Jessica Schagerl, and Kristen Warder; in ChLAQ, a forum on J.K. Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore, edited by Kenneth Kidd; and in CJFS, a special issue on film and disability, edited by Nicole Markotic.

Meanwhile, I have recently finished setting up a new website for the Early Canadian Literature Society, which was founded last year. There’s not much up yet, but it will grow.

I did another interview for CBC Radio 1 last week—on Anne of Green Gables again, but this time in English—and have been told it will air tomorrow morning between 5:45 and 6:00 A.M. I probably won’t be awake to hear it, but if anyone is awake at that hour go to http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ and click on “Atlantic” under the CBC Radio One banner.