An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

Fans of the Toronto poet, non-fiction writer, and all-round wit David McFadden have become familiar with his trademark travel-narrative style through his previous books An Innocent in Scotland and An Innocent in Ireland. McFadden now ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Catch & Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

By Mark Kingwell

Those familiar with University of Toronto philosopher, critic, and media-wunderkind Mark Kingwell’s work may find the subject of his latest book, trout fishing, somewhat unlikely. Or not. Catch & Release is ostensibly a memoir dealing ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

By Mark Abley

For over a decade, journalist Mark Abley has been worrying about the extinction of languages. “Each time we lose a language/the ghosts who made use of it/cast a new bell,” he wrote in his poem ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada

By Chris Gudgeon

No topic elicits a broader array of responses than that of sex. From prim-lipped silence to raunchy histrionics, perhaps no nation embodies these differing attitudes more than Canada. Or at least that is the tack ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Writing Freelance

By Christine Adamec

Kids today: when it comes to career planning, they can easily acquire accessible, thorough, and inexpensive self-help guides that make the whole prospect of life as a writer halfway enticing. Compare and contrast to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Canadian Writer’s Market: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers (14th Edition)

By Sandra B. Tooze

It has been said that to be a freelance writer in Canada is a good way to starve to death slowly. The Canadian Writer’s Market has long been an effective tool to help freelancers fend ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Editing Canadian English (2nd Edition)

It’s a family legend that my husband married me because I could spell and I knew how to punctuate. With the advent of computer spellchecks, he’s joked occasionally that my usefulness is somewhat diminished these ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex, and the Single Guy

By Ryan Bigge

Not having been a single guy for over a dozen years, I read Ryan Bigge’s A Very Lonely Planet with considerable interest. By the time I was finished, I was almost overcome with a desire ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Abel’s Outback

By Allen Abel

I remember coming across the work of Allen Abel soon after the Globe and Mail posted him to China in 1983. His informative dispatches were written with quirky humour and a sideways way of seeing, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle

By Charles Long

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

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