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Lindsey Rivait is a freelance writer, editor, and illustrator from Windsor, ON. Her work has appeared in The Lance, In Business, The LaSalle Post, WAMM, Zap Fort Myer’s Source Magazine, ROOM Magazine, The Executive Magazine, Generation Magazine, Windsor Salt, and in poetry anthologies from The Canadian Authors Association Niagara Branch, Cranberry Tree Press, and Black Moss Press. Her work for the Lance has been reprinted in dozens of newspapers across Canada as well as included in the Gale/Cengage Learning Database "INFOTRAC" in Dallas, TX. Lindsey has written copy for Kaboose.com, was an editorial assistant at the Windsor Review, vice president of Generation Magazine, and secretary of the English Undergradute Students Association at the University of Windsor. Currently, Lindsey works as an editor at The Lance and runs an online comic sometimes at Soap in the Bathroom.

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We’ll Always Have Paris review

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Ray Bradbury We’ll Always Have Paris HarperCollins 224 pages $29.95 Ray Bradbury’s newest collection, We’ll Always Have Paris, is full of stories about the eerie, strange, and creepy, but also showcases Bradbury’s talent for writing about feelings of nostalgia. We’ll Always Have Paris features 21 short stories and one poem, all previously unpublished. In the [...]

The Idler’s Glossary review

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The Idler’s Glossary Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell Designed and decorated by Seth $12.95 Biblioasis 136 pages Author Joshua Glenn, Boston-based journalist and scholar, examines the etymology and history of hundreds of terms and phrases used to describe idlers and the act of idling in his new work, The Idler’s Glossary. In doing this, Glenn looks [...]

Klosterman explores the world of fiction

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Chuck Klosterman Downtown Owl Scribner 288 pages $28.00 Downtown Owl serves as Chuck Kloseterman’s first non-autobiographical novel. His previous efforts, full of pop culture, music references, and stories of ex-girlfriends and drugs, gave me the impression that this novel was going to be much different than it turned out to be. While Klosterman is known [...]

Random Acts of Poetry

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Watch out for Random Acts of Poetry By Lindsey Rivait Arts Editor October 1, 2008 With poetry books and guerrilla tactics on hand, poets across Canada will be committing Random Acts of Poetry from Oct. 1-5. Launched in 2004 by B.C. poet Wendy Morton, Random Acts of Poetry features 28 poets across Canada travelling through [...]

Stuff White People Like

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Author examines white people and the stuff they like By Lindsey Rivait Lance Arts Editor August 6, 2008 White people like all sorts of things—expensive sandwiches, eating brunch, ‘80s nights, and not owning TVs, among a list of 150 things as outlined by Stuff White People Like author, Christian Lander. These aren’t just any white [...]

All I Could Bare – Book Review

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. Craig Seymour Atria 256 pages $26.99 Who said you couldn’t strip your way to an M.A.? Craig Seymour uses stripping as the topic for his master’s thesis, experiencing the scene in Washington, D.C., and examining how it changed him—for the better—in [...]

Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I love writing book reviews! Sorry for neglecting this thing. I’m writing for another couple publications, more details once everything is kosher. In the meantime: Go pick up this book! I read it in one sitting. That’s rare for me! Are You There, Vodka? Handler’s cocktail for a successful book By Lindsey Rivait Arts Editor [...]

To boldly go where no blogger has gone before

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Here’s a book review I wrote a couple weeks ago about a book on blogging. See, I have been writing something! To boldly go where no blogger has gone before By Lindsey Rivait, The Lance (University of Windsor) WINDSOR (CUP) — The word “blog” and “bloggers” conjures images of overweight men in their late thirties [...]

National Poetry Month

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Here’s another writing-related article I wrote that I thought you guys might be interested in: A celebration of poetry Lindsey Rivait Arts Editor With National Novel Writing Month far behind us, it’s time to step up and celebrate a different form: poetry. April is National Poetry Month, and this year marks its tenth anniversary in [...]

Cut and paste: zines, ezines, and zine culture

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Wow, two posts in one day? Since the They Might Be Giants article wasn’t exactly writing-related, here’s one I wrote on zines. Enjoy! Cut and paste: zines, ezines, and zine culture Lindsey Rivait Lance Arts Writer Zines have been around in various forms since the invention of the printing press in the 1400s. People have [...]

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