Memoir & Biography

The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu

There probably aren’t many city dwellers who haven’t considered – perhaps while sitting in traffic or being accosted by an aggressive panhandler – pitching it all and going to live in the country. Then they ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ This Terrible Business Has Been Very Good to Me

By Norman Jewison

Anyone who has enjoyed watching movies during the last 40-plus years should read this book. It’s that simple. In This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, veteran Canadian director Norman Jewison details his life ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan

By Andrew Struthers

Compared wth author Andrew Struthers, Henry David Thoreau was a bit of a wimp. After all, Thoreau managed to eke only out two years at Walden Pond, while Struthers spent 10 years living “off the ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walk To New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada

By Charles Wilkins

"Because I felt like it” – that’s the reason journalist Charles Wilkins most often gave for deciding to walk from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New York City. But since the walk was preceded ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power

By Peter C. Newman

For such an ardent Canadian nationalist, Peter C. Newman’s life conforms in many respects to the clichéd image of the American dream. A poor immigrant boy arrives on these shores with nothing but a dream. ... Read More »

October 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

By Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel’s latest literary offering takes readers through a year of rereading some of this ever erudite and eclectic reader’s favourite books. Between June 2002 and May 2003, Manguel explored such unlikely literary bedfellows as ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers

By Anne Coleman

Anne Coleman has a secret: as a teen she was in love with the much older, much lauded Canadian author Hugh MacLennan. She got to know him over seven summers in the 1950s, when they ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden

By Patrick Lane

A drinker for most of his adult life, Patrick Lane has been a gardener for even longer. At the beginning of this memoir he has been sober for months, by its end for over a ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

By Keith Spicer

Keith Spicer has never been afraid to speak up. As commissioner of official Languages he preached the benefits of bilingualism to a wary nation. As CRTC Chairman he convinced resistant broadcasters to end violent children’s ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the Victims of September 11

By Diane Schoemperlen

Surely no one would dispute that real-life tragedy can spark transcendent art. But that blithe generalization gets put to the test in Diane Schoemperlen’s new book-length essay, Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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