Dr. Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit

So who is Dr. Delicious? By day, Robert Lecker is a (relatively) mild-mannered academic, a professor of Canadian writing and criticism at McGill. He was also one of the founders of ECW Press, who championed ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Fabrizio’s Return

By Mark Frutkin

Alchemy, astronomy, cuckoldry, and would-be saints – Mark Frutkin’s newest novel, his 10th, is as full of action and ribaldry as an Italian commedia cellaret or a comedy by Shakespeare. Given that, Fabrizio’s Return should ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Showbiz

By Jason Anderson

Appearing nightly: Las Vegas’s newest star and the country’s most ring-a-ding-ding impressionist, Jimmy Wynn! For his first novel, Jason Anderson has created a sort of parallel-universe Kennedy era (known here as the “Cannon era,” after ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson

By Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Violent passions destroy, while friendship is peaceful and sustaining – or so we tend to believe. But as overwhelmingly as any physical affair, the friendship of Jonathan Swift dominated the life of Esther Johnson, the ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Money: A Rick Redman Mystery

By Grant McCrea

Author Grant McCrea has set himself a difficult task in creating a witty, hard-drinking, Chandleresque character, seemingly interested in pursuing women, who is also a married father. Rick Redman’s wife is slowly killing herself with ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Eye of Heaven

By David Keck

It’s difficult to reckon whether it’s odd or appropriate that Canada, with its reputation for staidness and dry conventionalism, has produced so impressive a roster of front-rank writers of fantasy and science fiction. To an ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ When She Was Queen

By M.G. Vassanji

The newest book from M.G. Vassanji (after 2003’s Giller-winning The In-Between World of Vikram Lall) is a gripping collection of short stories that span the globe, from Toronto to Africa and beyond. The narratives are ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

By Darren Wershler-Henry

There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further with a book that is not actually a history of the typewriter – books of ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Love in the Time of Cholesterol: A Memoir with Recipes

By Cecily Ross

There is a jarring honesty to this memoir of a couple’s struggle with heart disease. Laid bare are the details of quadruple bypass surgery: pumps and fluids, depression and blood pressure. Cecily Ross – an ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

By Dragan Todorovic

Though it has never really gone away, the once-fusty memoir has recently enjoyed both a revival and a refreshing in the shape of poignant dispatches from troubled lands and poppy chronicles of Western life by ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Dr. Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit

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Dead Money: A Rick Redman Mystery

In the Eye of Heaven

★ When She Was Queen

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

Love in the Time of Cholesterol: A Memoir with Recipes

The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

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