+++  I really ranted on January 3 to a new book group I started at LibraryThing called ‘Only in Victoria’ about the Pacific Rim Review of Books (PRRB), Ekstasis Editions, and my friends Richard Olafson and Carole Sokolof…at least, I think we are still friends!  I suggest in no uncertain terms that I think that Ekstasis needs to get off the cultural welfare they receive from the Canada Council, taking a bow to the old cranky arguments of Brian Fawcett at the Literary Review of Canada.  Somehow, good old Diane di Prima, that wizened crone of the City Lights Books Beat movement, gets slightly wounded in the crossfire, an innocent bystander, if you will, of the Canadian cultural wars, because PRRB used her for a cover pic on their latest Winter number.  +++  www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=26857