Death Writes: A Curious Notebook

Death, it seems, has a short attention span. A mind that flits from century to century, from subject to subject with the speed of a TV converter. And this Death has a sense of fashion ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Sleeping Weather

By Cary Fagan

Leon Stone, Cary Fagan’s leading man in Sleeping Weather, is a Toronto character who’s spent some time in Kingston penetentiary and who urgently wants an explanation for his childhood. Fagan gives him lots of emotional ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography

By Terry Watada

Toronto author, playwright, and musician Terry Watada’s first book of fiction, Daruma Days, is a collection of stories connected by their Japanese-Canadian characters’ evacuation to internment camps in the British Columbia interior during the Second ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Summer Point

By Linda McNutt

Summer Point is the first novel by New Brunswick poet and playwright Linda McNutt. Its cover, part of a Cormorant Books redesign by Toronto designer Bill Douglas, is dark and elegant. This is a carefully constructed ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Evening with W.O. Mitchell: A Collection of the Author’s Best-loved Performance Pieces

By Barbara & Ormond Mitchell,eds.

An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a collection of some of the author’s favourite “performance pieces” – Mitchell has been a celebrated reader of his own work for much of his writing career. In fact, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Writing Home: A Pen Canada Anthology

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Just “home,” please, whatever that conjures up, Constance Rooke said. Her 40 contributors took the direction seriously. Cuteness, on the “Home Is…” model, doesn’t come in to it. Reminiscences of warm radiators and laps, yes, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

River Guides of the Miramichi

By Wayne Curtis

For those belonging to the group Izaak Walton called “the brotherhood of the angle,” for those who understand the terms shad‚ grilse‚ wooley bugger‚ and guiding lady, Wayne Curtis’s River Guides of the Miramichi will, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

By Andrew Clark

Canadians are funny. There’s Jim Carrey and his $20-million mug; there’s what’s left of the SCTV gang; there’s Lorne Michaels, who invented Saturday Night Live. Before them went Wayne and Shuster, who are still famous ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Rock and Roll Toronto

By John Goddard and Richard Crouse

A stroll through the streets of Toronto offers little evidence of this city’s important place in Canadian rock ’n’ roll history. There’s a cluster of clubs along Queen Street, a quadrant of record stores at ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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

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