The Empty Room

Lauren B. Davis’s fourth novel tells the story of Colleen Kerrigan, a relatively unremarkable middle-aged secretary who is single and childless. Colleen is also a full-blown alcoholic. The novel takes place over a single day. ... Read More »

July 4, 2013

The Pope’s Bookbinder

By David Mason

Here’s how David Mason, Toronto’s leading antiquarian book dealer, explains the title of this memoir: in the late 1950s, aged 19, he left Canada, eventually landing in Spain, where he found work as a bookbinder. ... Read More »

July 2, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Small Nouns Crying Faith

By Phil Hall

There are many ways language can be broken down. Some poets choose to slice and slaughter, neatly debriding and deboning, turning metaphors into meat. Others prefer to dissolve aggressively, as if by acid, or gradually, ... Read More »

June 24, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Hoogie in the Middle

By Stephanie McLellan; Dean Griffiths, illus.

Scene: two children stand in the late afternoon sunlight comparing shadows. The little brother says, “Look! I’m long!” His older sister replies, “I’m longer.” Siblings give us our first experience of the tyranny of comparison. ... Read More »

June 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Community

By Ruth Holmes Whitehead

At the outset of the American Revolution, the British governor of Virginia issued a proclamation declaring that slaves of American rebels would be freed if they joined royal forces attempting to restore order. This was ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: History

The History of Montréal: The Story of a Great North American City

By Paul-André Linteau; Peter McCambridge, trans.

Paul-André Linteau’s history of Montreal is such a slim volume, written in such plain language, it runs the risk of being dismissed as a primer. But that would underestimate the author’s ability to distill crucial ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: History

Free Magic Secrets Revealed

By Mark Leiren-Young

In his new memoir, Mark Leiren-Young, winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, reminisces about six months in the late 1970s when he and a group of friends, backed (at least initially) by ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Still Hunting

By Martin Hunter

Director and playwright Martin Hunter, who turns 80 this year, pops up almost everywhere in Canadian stage history and frequently in the arts world generally. Readers of Still Hunting, a companion to his 2008 memoir, ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Memory of Water

By Allen Smutylo

“Since childhood I’ve been both drawn to water and frightened by it,” writes Allen Smutylo, a Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist who has spent 40 years of his professional life exploring the extremes of the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Writing Life: Journals 1975–2005

By George Fetherling; Brian Busby, ed.

George (formerly Doug) Fetherling has been a fixture on the CanLit scene for nearly half a century. During a prolific and wide-ranging career that has included significant ties to Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver, Fetherling has ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

The Empty Room

The Pope’s Bookbinder

★ The Small Nouns Crying Faith

Hoogie in the Middle

Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Community

The History of Montréal: The Story of a Great North American City

Free Magic Secrets Revealed

Still Hunting

The Memory of Water

The Writing Life: Journals 1975–2005

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