Toronto Star Reviews Albatross It’s always nice when a major media outlet reviews your novel. It’s even nicer when you and your novel survive […] August 7, 2019
Nine years later… Yes, you’re right, it’s time to cast my mind back over the last year for the annual counting of my writerly […] January 1, 2016
My Canada Reads Gift Guide CBC asked all of the Canada Reads finalists to answer a kind of holiday gift guide questionnaire. Today was my […] December 24, 2010
My CBC Book Club Podcast episode A couple of weeks ago, I got a call from one of the literary producers at CBC Radio about coming […] October 1, 2010
John Irving on stage in Toronto Last Sunday I snuck away from regular family weekend activities to see John Irving at the International Festival of Authors […] October 31, 2009
Writers I revere: John Irving After reading almost exclusively nonfiction until I was nearly 30, I switched to fiction around 1988 and haven’t looked back. […] July 23, 2009
Writers I revere: Paul Quarrington I first read King Leary, Paul Quarrington‘s 1987 Leacock winning novel, shortly after it was published, and then proceeded to […] May 23, 2009
New Year’s Resolutions… Tis the season for new year’s resolutions. For many years, a mainstay of my annual list of resolutions had been […] January 1, 2009
