I can't quite fathom the timing, but in any case I've learned that
the Montreal Gazette ran a fairly long feature-cum-review of The Geography of Hope a couple weeks back. The money quote:
His address at Concordia, to a small but packed house, was low key. His
prose is not. He writes passionately and with clarity as he presents
examples of the sustainable: communities, housing, factories,
automobiles and public transit, new approaches to economics and
progress, design that takes into account its surroundings and works
with materials that can be used and re-used without damage to the
environment.
I guess the ole Whistle-Stop Tour is still paying media-coverage dividends.
The story also mentions my "clever 2004 bestseller,"
Planet Simpson, which the very same paper called "the definitive Simpsons study." Trivia buffs will note that the Gazette was one of two publications to bestow that particular honorific on
Planet Simpson; the other was Britain's venerable Q Magazine ("Quite simply, the definitive book about The Simpsons" - Nov 04).
Finally, a note for you Turner completists out there, who I understand might number as many as two (not counting my mom): Vintage Canada will release a revised edition of
Planet Simpson this October to coincide with the show's 20th anniversary, with a new afterward I should be working on this very afternoon. Excitement, she wrote!