AN ANANSI READER

In honour of The Anansi Reader we think it only appropriate to showcase you -- An Anansi Reader. Each month, we’ll shine the light on someone just like you, maybe someone nothing like you. But you all share one thing in common -- you make up the face of Anansi.

This month, meet Jap Makkar!
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Anansi: Jap, you're a university student. How do you find the time to read for pleasure?

Jap: I'm lucky in that most of the required readings for my classes are pleasurable. On the occasion that I'd like to get to a book before the school year is over, I usually make time for a few pages before bed.

Anansi: As a writer, who do you count among your influences?

Jap: [While in high school,] I was taught by Katherine Parrish. She exposed me to contemporary Canadian poetry, music, the Scream Literary Festival, and many new ideas. If not for her, not only would I write differently, certainly, I'd think differently.

Anansi: Do you have a favourite Anansi author or excerpt?

Jap: My favourite passage comes from one of my favourite books of poetry, Ken Babstock's Mean. In "School Bus Broadsided by a Patrol Car," when describing a dead body, he writes:

The upper half of the other had
sunk into the dash, leaving a cast
of himself, as if the second before impact
he'd been fiddling with the radio, had slid
past a growl of static and
found a clean, whole note --
was remembering his father's violin,
vinyl chairs in a blue kitchen, mother
tapping her foot, and a Tupperware
cup of gin. Managed Y'know, when I was. . .
to his partner before
diving in.

Anansi: Where can we find you along the Information Highway?

Jap: http://epilepticonbed.blogspot.com/

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If you’d like to be considered for a future Anansi Reader Q&A, email Julie Wilson at julie@anansi.ca.

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