The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies: A Memoir of Hungary

Contemporary memoirs – the unforgettable ones – are narrative poker games that break out when a limber imagination takes on family history. Angela’s Ashes and Running in the Family – to name but a slim ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Canada Trip

By Charles Gordon

Charles Gordon is a journalist and author with no desire to cross the country by canoe, ultralight, or via the Northwest Passage. He just wants to get in his car with his wife and spend ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

At Home on the Stroll: My Twenty Years as a Prostitute in Canada

By Alexandra Highcrest

“I’m conservative and I’m old fashioned,” says Alexandra Highcrest, male-to-female transsexual and former prostitute, in a recent interview with Quill & Quire. It’s true, and this conservatism is both the strength and the weakness of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Discovery

By Bonnie Sherr Klein and Persimmon Blackbridge

As with her documentary films – Not A Love Story, for instance – Bonnie Sherr Klein’s memoir, Slow Dance, is a collaborative effort that speaks to the transforming power of community. Written with novelist Persimmon ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne

By David P. Silcox

Art historian David Silcox’s biography of painter David Milne (1882–1953) has finally arrived, more than two decades after the University of Toronto art historian took on the mammoth project. Painting Place is the first of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ironic: Alanis Morissette, the Story

By Barry Grills

One has to wonder why two biographies of singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette – by rock critic Barry Grills and Ottawa Sun writer Paul Cantin – are being released now, just as the hoopla over Morissette is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know

By Paul Cantin

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada

By Bruce McCall

Autobiography still sounds to me like something you do to yourself when you know you shouldn’t, a rough equivalent of self-inflicted dentistry. It’s an otherwise problematic word, too – in the word biography there’s an ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Great Dames

By Elspeth Cameron,Janice Dickin, eds.

Great Dames is a great title, and a fitting one, for this collection of short biographies of 20th-century Canadian women. The editors and contributors are all feminist scholars, but you don’t have to be a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Reluctant Pornographer

By Bruce La Bruce

The Reluctant Pornographer is a star’s memoirs so there is not much time for self-analysis between descriptions of getting it on for the camera and facing a film festival question and answer session. Nonetheless, Toronto ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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