It was his voice that caught her attention. On a Friday in early 2012, Christine Haebler, a producer at Screen Siren Pictures, was driving to work when she heard Richard Wagamese on CBC Radio talking ... Read More »
March 15, 2018
On Sept. 15, the Toronto International Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Indian Horse, a Canadian adaptation of the late Richard Wagamese’s 2012 bestselling and award-winning novel about an Ojibway boy who discovers hockey ... Read More »
September 19, 2017
It was announced on April 12 that actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley will write and direct an adaptation of Zoe Whittall’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted novel, The Best Kind of People (House of Anansi Press). The ... Read More »
April 24, 2017
Most people understandably think of Joseph Boyden as a storyteller and novelist, but at the Toronto International Film Festival this week he is proving that he's also at home as a screenwriter and narrator. Snip, ... Read More »
September 14, 2016
To most of English Canada, the name Nelly Arcan doesn’t mean much. But in the French-speaking world, especially Quebec, it’s another story. A bestselling and award-winning author of four novels, Arcan (who committed suicide in ... Read More »
September 13, 2016
When Marvel was preparing to launch a new comic series last year based on its archer superhero Hawkeye, the creative team – writer Jeff Lemire, artist Ramón Pérez, and colourist Ian Herring – were asked what ... Read More »
May 12, 2016
Paul Gross’s war movie, Hyena Road, about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, isn’t hitting theatres until Oct. 9. But head to a local bookstore right now and you'll find a novelization with Gross’s name on it, ... Read More »
September 16, 2015
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Emma Donoghue’s international bestselling novel Room that it would eventually find its way to the big screen. What’s particularly exciting about the movie version ... Read More »
September 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
For 10 days, the Toronto International Film Festival turns Canada’s largest city into the epicentre of the movie world. Hundreds of films grace the metropolis’s big screens, a who’s who of filmmakers flood the hotels ... Read More »
September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
In 1968, two intellectual giants stepped onto an ABC studio set to begin a series of political debates. One man was author, liberal, and enfant terrible Gore Vidal. The other was commentator, staunch conservative, and ... Read More »
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