Written by James Davis: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

On a quiet Tuesday in January of 2010, in Vancouver, in Kitsilano inside Benny's on Broadway, I casually interviewed two writers--B.S.¹ at 4:30PM and S.L.² at 8:00PM--with the intention of publishing each interview in a local grassroots art news medium at a bi-monthly interval.  To my surprise, in the following week, one of the two writers, on the condition of anonymity herein, queried me about the possibility of engineering a contest, a warm and cordial one, insinuating “irrational urge” as his or her chief motive.  To my disbelief, the second of the two writers accepted the challenge.  And so I, James Davis, having heard that light comes from heat, agreed to devise this contest.  In the following days, I configured my two pages of ad lib interview notes into an amalgamated and candid split-screen contrapuntal contest.  Once completed, both writers were offered editing opportunities and have ultimately consented to the finished presentation, including the six sentences you just read, and now the seventh: Each writer invites you, yes you, one amongst a coterie, to choose the writer whose future book you would most prefer to read on the basis of the information adduced.  Delineate your impressions based on your own standards of judgement.  You can vote by emailing either B.S. or S.L. a memo of support.