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
Paul Quarrington 1953-2010 Like so many other Canlit lovers, I’m torn up today. There will no new Paul Quarrington novel to anticipate. Not […] January 21, 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
Thinking of Paul Quarrington today… As I wrote recently in one of my little “Writers I revere” posts, I’ve been a fan of Paul Quarrington […] June 1, 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
Writers I revere: Robertson Davies I was a late convert to Robertson Davies. Unlike most Canadian teenagers, I never encountered Davies in my high school […] March 7, 2009
Writers I revere: Stephen Fry As threatened on this blog earlier, here’s the first in a periodic series of posts on a handful of my […] February 7, 2009
