Bambi and Me

Playwright Michel Tremblay’s book offers a dozen pieces, ranging from a short sentimental statement (which gives the book its title) to anecdotal satiric narratives about his boyhood, and adolescent pleasures at the movies. He reminisces ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beneath That Starry Place

By Terry Jordan

There’s the story, and then there’s the story telling. In most novels, one outshines the other. Terry Jordan, however, confounds us if we attempt to choose one over the other in this, his first full-length ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape

By Pamela Banting, ed.

How does the land shape our perceptions of the world? In her introduction to this intriguing anthology of essays, poems, stories, and memoirs, Pamela Banting suggests that writers in western Canada are increasingly eager to ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Last Manly Man: A Robin Hudson Mystery

By Sparkle Hayter

With The Last Manly Man, the fourth Robin Hudson mystery, Sparkle Hayter joins the ranks of successful serial crime writers. While Hayter’s work is uniquely picaresque and far less formulaic than the average female-authored mystery, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

By Liz Brady

If you’re a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, you’ll probably enjoy Liz Brady’s first Jane Yeats novel, Sudden Blow. Yeats, a Toronto based writer turned amateur detective, has a similar eternal tomboy image. When ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Debriefing the Rose

By Mary di Michele

In her new collection, Montreal poet Mary di Michele explores how we can often feel a stronger connection to writers or artists of the past than to people in the present. Di Michele effortlessly travels ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson is better known in the U.S. than in Canada, and her work has been championed by American writers such as Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard. In Autobiography of Red, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr

By Kate Braid

In her third volume of poetry, award-winning writer Kate Braid brings together two painters, Georgia O’Keeffe and Emily Carr, and takes them on a journey of the imagination. Braid was intrigued by a brief meeting ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Heart Is Its Own Reason

By Natalee Caple

There’s a certain strain of contemporary women’s lit – particularly the “textural” short story – that’s very big on oblique domestic scenes, memories of childhood, protracted silences, windows, kitchenware, loss, and secrets. At times these ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Tracey Fragments

By Maureen Medved

The tortured teen in fiction is frequently depicted with a sense of mortification, romanticism, or exasperation. Few authors are brave enough to express that part of adolescence that harbours a violent and sexual energy, or ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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