Is a fictional character from my novel The Blue Light Projectcoming to life? A mystery is growing here. I’ve just published a new novel about a street artist, the semi-fictional Rabbit. The book’s been getting amazing reviews. Banksy even tweeted about it recently. Not bad. In the book there are multiple photos of street art. Most of that work […]
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“…the name Rene Girard may ring a bell…”
I’m outed as an admirer of Girard by Humber College Professor of Political Philosophy Kent Enns. He’s writing about my new novel The Blue Light Project. If you’re interested in Girard and the urgency of his ideas, you might enjoy the novel. About a three day hostage crisis at the studio of a controversial reality television show, […]
Blue Light Project Street Art – Part I
I’ve just published a new novel about a street artist, the semi-fictional Rabbit. The book’s been getting amazing reviews. Then the other day Banksy tweeted about it. Nice! But this series of posts isn’t about the book. It’s about the artists in my part of the world who inspired Rabbit and make him “semi-fictional”. Artists whose […]
Don Delillo
I’m hugely flattered by some recent and heavy praise for The Blue Light Project, a “thriller that makes you think” about a hostage crisis in a television studio. In each of these reviews, I’ve been compared to Don Delillo, who is a serious hero of mine. That comparison leaves me speechless (almost) but grateful. The […]
There’s a riot going on: Talking to Timothy Taylor about The Blue Light Project
From the Montreal Gazette, an interview with Ian McGillis. Timothy Taylor‘s new The Blue Light Project is that rare beast: a popular novel of ideas. It’s a book whose firm narrative grip goes hand in hand with its thematic depth, a book that addresses topical issues with a rigor that feels timeless, while retaining a […]
Praise for The Blue Light Project
The Blue Light Project has garnered a lot of press attention this past week. And it’s almost all been very positive. The book is an Amazon.ca New and Notable Title as well as an Amazon.ca Spring Book Feature. Author profiles have now run in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. But the […]
Postmodern Research
I was honored to have JermIX do the cover of The Blue Light Project American edition. He’s just posted a great piece on his blog describing the process. Jerm’s description of how he went about it opens a window into the two-way creative relationship that this book had with the artists who inspired it. I […]
The brutal honesty of Doug Coupland
A fantastic, supportive quote has come in from UBC English professor Laura Moss, who is also an editor at the literary quarterly Canadian Literature, and the author of Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts In the this quote, Moss compares my work to Coupland. I’m flattered by that comarison, as I admire Coupland a lot. And […]
As It Is: And/Or/Neither/Nor Work by Andrew (A01) Owen
Andrew (A01) Owen was a huge influence on me during the writing of The Blue Light Project. His street activity was high during the months I was writing and researching the book, primarily in the form of 1:1 scale “re-photo-cubic-surfaces”. I became very intrigued by this practice and by this artist. Over the following years, […]
The Blue Light Project at the Vancouver International Writers Festival
Incite April 6 7:30 PM on Wednesday, April 6th Alice McKay room, Central Vancouver Public Library Incite will feature a presentation from Timothy Taylor about his new novel The Blue Light Project. Involving three days in the life of a city gripped by a hostage taking in a television studio at the center of town, The […]