The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

George Fetherling argues in his surprisingly cantankerous preface to The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs that Canadians are psychologically predisposed to dealing imaginatively with their pasts. Compared with the traditional American emphasis of “lighting out ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

All Families Are Psychotic

By Douglas Coupland

With All Families Are Psychotic author Douglas Coupland has completed a seven-novel mission: he’s finally moved his characters out of the rumpus room.Rumpus rooms have always figured prominently in Coupland’s universe of protracted, distracted youngishness. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fasle Face

By Welwyn Wilton Katz

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Boggart

By Susan Cooper

March 19, 2004

Julie

By Cora Taylor

March 19, 2004

The Unseen: Scary Stories

By Janet Lunn, ed.

March 19, 2004

Hiccup Champion of the World

By Ken Roberts

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

My Mother’s Ghost

By Margaret Buffie

March 19, 2004

Losing It

By Alan Cumyn

Bob Sterling is the Edgar Allen Poe specialist at a Canadian university. He dumped his first wife for front-row student Julia, and now that marriage, too, is adrift because Bob lusts for yet another student, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

The plot of Mad Dog, Kelly Watt’s first novel, seems designed to be a quick pitch: it is 1964, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne is living with her uncle Fergus on his apple orchard, deep in the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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