Overqualified

Toronto writer Joey Comeau’s second novel consists of 40 job application cover letters, each addressed to a different potential employer and signed with the novelist’s own name. Though his desire for gainful employment may be ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virgin’s Tale

By Sherri Smith

Sherri Smith opens her debut novel with an eerie scene: a woman buried alive and left to suffocate alone in her tomb. The 400+ pages that follow tell her story — and the claustrophobia never ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Death Was in the Picture

By Linda L. Richards

Imagine that Sam Spade’s secretary had to solve the mystery of the Maltese Falcon because Spade was too drunk to leave the office and you have the basic conceit of B.C. author Linda L. Richards’ ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj has written a sparkling first novel – part of Knopf Canada’s New Face of Fiction series – about a Caribbean family riven by economic hardship, fatherlessness, and fierce sibling rivalry. The titular Seetha ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fishing for Bacon

By Michael Davie

The “Bacon” in the title of this enjoyable comic debut from Calgary author Michael Davie is Bacon Sobelowski, an unprepossessing young man just out of high school and wondering what to do with his life. ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

By Eric Siblin

The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. ... Read More »

February 9, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

By Steve Maich and Lianne George

Member of Generation X or Y: get ready for some bad news. You may see yourself as community-minded, the sort of person who’d organize neighbourhood block parties and do volunteer work if you had the ... Read More »

January 26, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lenny Bruce Is Dead

By Jonathan Goldstein

The elegiac tone of Jonathan Goldstein’s first novel, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, doesn’t have much to do with the death of the iconoclastic, detatched comic of the title. Rather, Josh, who lives in Montreal, is ... Read More »

January 22, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Arctic Visions: Pictures from a Vanished World

By Fred Bruemmer

Between 1964 and 1995, Montreal-based photographer Fred Bruemmer spent part of each year living among the Inuit in the Arctic. Bruemmer was enthralled by the “magic and majesty” of the land itself – “its rugged ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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Overqualified

The Virgin’s Tale

★ Death Was in the Picture

★ The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha

Fishing for Bacon

Stripmalling

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

Lenny Bruce Is Dead

Arctic Visions: Pictures from a Vanished World

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