Memoir & Biography

Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business

Considering that Barry Avrich’s book about his life in marketing and documentary movie-making presents itself as the story of “a kid from Montreal who has nothing extraordinary” yet “could have so many dreams come true,” ... Read More »

May 30, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »

May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

By Katherine Holstein; Maria Toorpakai

Maria Toorpakai has survived horrors most of her North American readers will never encounter except between the covers of a book: public beatings, confinement, dengue fever, death threats. Born in 1990 in Pakistan’s oppressive northwest ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (ed.)

A selection of personal essays by indigenous and non-indigenous writers, In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation is a call for meaningful reconciliation between colonizers and indigenous people. Edited by author and historian ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nowhere with You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, the Emergency and Thrush Hermit

By Josh O'Kane

Every city has a few hidden destinations where hormonally charged teenagers congregate to drink, smoke, fight, and screw around without the threat of adult intervention. Though Joel Plaskett never really partook in the debauchery – ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart and Mind Over Same-sex Marriage

By Michael Coren

It’s often been observed that we grow more conservative and fixed in our opinions as we age. All the more remarkable, then, is author and broadcaster Michael Coren’s “conversion on the road to the rainbow”: ... Read More »

May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077

By Craig Davidson

In the summer of 2008, Craig Davidson was at a low point in his life. Having been hailed as “one to watch” thanks to his debut short-story collection, Rust and Bone, expectations were high for ... Read More »

May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution

By Carmen Aguirre

There are few of us whose adult selves are not heavily influenced by our childhoods. All the embarrassing, sad, happy, or frightening personal actions and events we remember, retell, dismiss, or suppress, greatly determine the ... Read More »

April 28, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Change Up: How to Make the Great Game of Baseball Even Better

By Buck Martinez; Dan Robson

Buck Martinez thinks baseball is broken. That, of course, doesn’t mean the veteran player and current Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer doesn’t love the game dearly – only that he has some recommendations to make ... Read More »

April 18, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

By Kay Parley

After suffering a breakdown in 1948, Kay Parley was placed in Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Mental Hospital, known colloquially as “the Mental.” Nine months later, her illness never properly diagnosed but under control, she was released. While ... Read More »

April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

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