Author photo change for The High Road My identical twin brother Tim, an accomplished photographer in off-hours, took the author photo for TBLP and, we thought, took […] April 11, 2010
Books & Brunch event in Uxbridge tomorrow I’ll be in Uxbridge tomorrow for brunch and a reading oragnized by Shelley Macbeth and her wonderful Blue Heron Books […] April 10, 2010
Jessica Grant wins Canada Also Reads! A great writer and a great book have won the first Canada Also Reads, organized by the National Post‘s Afterword […] March 18, 2010
The great Ian Ferguson “blurbs” The High Road Ian Ferguson is wonderful writer and a very funny guy. I read his Leacock-winning book, Village of the Small Houses, […] March 5, 2010
Enjoyed Toronto Premiere of Robertson Davies Play As I’ve noted several times already in this space, Robertson Davies is one of my literary heroes. His novels were […] March 4, 2010
As requested, a shameless tour of five years It may be because it usually takes me about an hour to tell the tale of what I often call […] February 14, 2010
Trying my hand at teaching next fall… There’s an old adage that “those who can’t do, teach.” Thankfully, I’ve never really subscribed to that notion. In fact, […] January 14, 2010
TBLP makes another “Decade’s Best” list This is quite unexpected. Okay, I’m shocked and thrilled at one and the same time. The Mark is a respected […] January 7, 2010
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
CBC Book Club contest asks a question… I’ve been a die-hard CBC Radio listener since childhood when my mother would tune in from dawn to dusk in […] April 25, 2009
