Memoir & Biography

And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

As Canadians, we tend to overlook our own history of modern art, eclipsed as it was by the advances toward Modernism in Europe and America early in the 20th century. The 1913 New York Armory ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Shut Up He Explained

By John Metcalf

John Metcalf is tired of being called a literary crank. Right near the beginning of this fatally unbalanced collection of literary memoir, travel memoir, criticism, and belles-lettres sweepings, the author, literary critic, and former Porcupine’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Smuggler’s Blues: The Saga of a Marijuana Importer

By Jay Carter Brown

The United Nations recently reported that Canada leads the industrialized world in pot smoking per capita. Montrealer Jay Carter Brown could likely claim more than a little responsibility for that distinction. In Smuggler’s Blues, Brown ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide

By Jonathan Garfinkel

Ambivalence is poet and playwright Jonathan Garfinkel’s memoir of his exploration of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and his attempts to come to terms with his own Jewish faith. Garfinkel had a sheltered ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

My Mother’s Daughter

By Rona Maynard

Rona Maynard has deep roots in the worlds of art and storytelling. She was the editor of Chatelaine for 10 years. Before that, she worked at Maclean’s under Peter C. Newman. Her mother, Fredelle Maynard, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

By Bret Hart

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if pro wrestling is fake or not. Because, as is made clear from Bret “Hitman” Hart’s autobiography, the athleticism required to execute wrestling’s pre-scripted entertainment is real – ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn

By Chris Gudgeon

In the early 1970s, Milton Acorn was one of Canada’s most famous poets. An antagonistic, argumentative man, his highly acclaimed poems about love, nature, and social and political concerns won him the 1975 Governor General’s ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

By David Gilmour

Faced with a frustrated 16-year-old son having increasing problems at school, Governor General’s Award-winning novelist and broadcaster David Gilmour made a decision that no parenting manual is likely to recommend: he allowed his son, Jesse, ... Read More »

October 9, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

By Ross King

In the latest edition of the Eminent Lives Series, Canadian-born Ross King, author of last year’s The Judgment of Paris, tells the life story of Renaissance political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.King’s adherence to a linear timeline ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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