January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In early 2002, when the world’s attention was aimed at the war in Afghanistan, CBC Television journalist Carol Off landed the thing people in her profession live for – a good “get.” In Kabul, Off ... Read More »
In the 1960s and ’70s, Greg Curnoe was the undeniable “bad boy” of Canadian art, actively courting controversy while also embracing his hometown of London, Ontario, as a key part of his artistic practice. His ... Read More »
December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Generally speaking, the readership for a musician’s memoir is drawn almost entirely from the subject’s established fan base. The higher the musician’s profile, the larger the potential audience. So what are we to make of ... Read More »
November 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
How does a biographer say something new and insightful about well-known public figures who have already had large dollops of ink spilled on their behalf? Authors David Yaffe and Nicholas Jennings take distinctly different approaches ... Read More »
November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Shawn Hitchins dedicates his debut collection of essays to two people: “Harrison Ford, for making me gay,” and “my father, for making me a comedian.” That salty-sweet-salty combination is Hitchins’s go-to mode in A Brief ... Read More »
October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In the Anishinaabe culture, “Mino-pimadiziwin” means “the good life.” In context, Mino-pimadiziwin can be understood as a wholistic life, one that includes fostering a relationship to land and community, and sharing knowledge with others. Lynn ... Read More »
October 16, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
How does a biographer say something new and insightful about well-known public figures who have already had large dollops of ink spilled on their behalf? Authors David Yaffe and Nicholas Jennings take distinctly different approaches ... Read More »
September 28, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In April 2014, author and family court judge Manjusha Pawagi was diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia. Her candid and often funny new memoir covers the period from her diagnosis to her meeting, two ... Read More »
September 12, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
If you live in an urban centre, you’ve seen them, perhaps even daily: unbathed youth in rotten studded jackets begging for change streetside; dreadlocked 20-somethings napping on sidewalks midday beside Sharpied cardboard signs; a kid ... Read More »
August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Spare a thought for the country’s translators. In a nation that is nominally multicultural and officially bilingual, the diligent wordsmiths who devote themselves to rendering foreign-language texts into the dominant English are rarely afforded the ... Read More »
August 29, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography