In George Elroy Boyd’s Gideon’s Blues, Momma-Lou remembers how her husband, Poppy, used to say that this was “one nigger-hatin’ town.” I hazard a guess that it might be comforting for some Canadians’ self-image if ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Neither Andrew Moodie, author of Riot, nor Lee Macdougall, who wrote High Life, had plays produced before writing these. Both men were, and are, actors who decided they wanted to write. Many people involved in ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Neither Andrew Moodie, author of Riot, nor Lee Macdougall, who wrote High Life, had plays produced before writing these. Both men were, and are, actors who decided they wanted to write. Many people involved in ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Writing about music, mused Woody Allen, is like dancing about architecture. So in preparing Rock, Rhythm and Reels, author Lee Fleming went straight to the source to uncover the charm and passion underlying the flourishing ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
With his new book of essays, award-winning Kingston poet and short story writer Steven Heighton joins the dark, millennial murmurings of writers like Sven Birkerts, whose 1994 Gutenberg Elegies sounded an eloquent warning knell – ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
The forward to Radke’s own self-publication, The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing, is written by Dan Poynter, the author of The Self-Publishing Manual. Poynter’s book is then referred to, or directly recommended, no fewer than five ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
Do you have a complaint, any complaint? In this book, Ottawa writer Karen Molson attempts to address the most common consumer problems, spur the reader to action, and provide a “handy reference guide.” However, Complain, ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
Linda Silver Dranoff’s Everyone’s Guide to the Law is a single-volume “attempt to demystify the law for the average person.” In other words, it undertakes to summarize our tangled legal landscape in just over 400 ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
What Your Travel Agent Knows That You Don’t is a mini-guide targetted to women travellers, both experienced and inexperienced. But the information here is very basic, and the veteran world traveller won’t find much of ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
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