Mary's Featured at GriLit and Sense and Sustainability

As the equinox approaches, it's festival and conference time. Mary will be take part of the English Graduates Students Socieety conference Sense and Sustainability Saturday March 14 at the Université de Montréal while on April 4 she's appearing at Hamilton's GritLit literary festival. She'll be talking about and reading from The Walkable City at both events.

She's also involved in planning Montreal's first Jane's Walk, to take place the weekend of May 2. First started two years ago in Toronto as a salute to the late Jane Jacobs, the walks will be held in several cities this year. Mary will be leading one around her own Outremont neighborhood. Stay tuned for more details.

Flurry of Talk about Walking the Walk

This week has seen Mary featured in several media. Tuesday Ryan Young of CKUT's Ecolibrium program interviewed her about Green City and The Walkable City. Check it out at the CKUT site by clicking on Ecolibrium for Dec. 2: the interview begins about half way through. On Thursday, Robyn Fadden reviewed The Walkable City in Hour Magazine: "Walk On," she writes.

Saturday Dave Bronstetter will interview Mary on All in a Weekend, the weekend morningn show on CBC Montreal radio. And the last issue of the neighborhood weekly Le Point d'Outremont gave her front page coverage. The occasion was not only the publication of her books, but the prize she received from the Quebec Writers' Federation for her work to promote writing and reading over the last couple of decades (Scroll down to see a photo of her and the saucy librarian Ms. Julie comparing their shoes.) Rather nice, given that this year also saw her winning the Batisseur d'Outremont award from the borough council for her part in the fight to build a new library.