Stormy Weather: F. H. Varley, a Biography

Fred Varley, acclaimed Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven, is an ideal subject for a biography. His complexity of character warrants illumination, his travels across Canada and elsewhere provide a richly textured ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Where the Meadowlark Sang: Cherished Scenes from an Artist’s Childhood

By Hazel Litzgus

Calgary artist Hazel Litzgus has compiled a picture book memoir of her childhood on a Prairie farm. Organized into sections according to the seasons, the book uses her watercolour paintings as a stepping stone into ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Zig Zag: A Life on the Move

By James Houston

James Houston is the kind of man you’d love to meet at a dinner party – especially after reading Zig Zag, his new memoir. The book is a sequel to his bestseller, Confessions of an ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Body Music

By Dennis Lee

What is most striking about Dennis Lee’s latest volume – a collection of essays about poetry and poets – is that it’s poetic in its execution of language and expression of ideas. Body Music is ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey

By Freeman Patterson

Multi-talented Freeman Patterson’s latest collection of photos, taken in an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia, Africa, is sheer magic. The subtle shades of golden images of sand, walls, and open doorways in Odysseys: Meditations ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Shadow Boxer

By Steven Heighton

In a 1997 essay, Steven Heighton – poet, short story writer, intellectual, registered hunk, and now novelist – warns that “to survive as a full-time writer you have to manage your affairs in a way ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chew on This!

By Susan Devins

Susan Devins, the author of Makin’ Muffins, has created a make-your-own bubble gum book and kit.The book is slim, colourful, and glossy. It contains history (Santa Anna, the Mexican general who conquered the Alamo was ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

Tapping the Dream Tree

By Charles de Lint

Readers of Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint are facing an embarrassment of riches this fall. Tor Books continues its ongoing trade paperback reissue campaign, which has brought back to print books that have been ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Waifs and Strays

By Charles de Lint

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness

By Guy Babineau

If this book becomes ghettoized as “contemporary gay fiction” it would be a pity; while definitely, openly gay – the book’s eight short stories casually refer to such mainstream taboos as bathhouse sex, transsexuals and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Stormy Weather: F. H. Varley, a Biography

Where the Meadowlark Sang: Cherished Scenes from an Artist’s Childhood

Zig Zag: A Life on the Move

Body Music

★ Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey

The Shadow Boxer

Chew on This!

Tapping the Dream Tree

Waifs and Strays

Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness

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