Summer Point

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

A Quiet Game

By Margaret Atwood, Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace, eds

The world has produced many child prodigies in music, but few in literature. A few precocious teens in days of yore wrote classic novels (Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis), and the late 20th century has produced ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

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

Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know

By Paul Cantin

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

Ironic: Alanis Morissette, the Story

By Barry Grills

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

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Summer Point

A Quiet Game

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

★ Writing Home: A Pen Canada Anthology

River Guides of the Miramichi

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

Rock and Roll Toronto

Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know

Ironic: Alanis Morissette, the Story

Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada

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