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Anatomizing Gray

08/05/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

HOW THE WEST WAS WRITTENThe Life and Times of James H. GrayBy Brian BrennanFifth House Publishers226 pp., $24.95 Review by Frank Moher My father, who was a sportswriter in Alberta for about three decades beginning in the late 1930s, had a simple brush-off for some of the young journalists who started popping up late in […]

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Yann Martel’s two-man book club

06/20/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher In my previous post to this section I said I’d be back in seven days with my thoughts on Yann Martel’s bibliophilic jihad against Stephen Harper. That was, er, um, six weeks ago. But hey, who hasn’t been following the Paris Hilton news coverage 24/7? In any event, in the interim a […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada Council, Canadian culture, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, Yann Martel

Margaret Atwood has a nightmare

05/03/2007 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Frank Moher Some of my fellow writer-types are being particularly irritating these days, and not in a good way. It is, of course, part of an artist’s job to be irritating some of the time, as, for example, the Dixie Chicks were about George Bush’s war. By the time Americans got through being irritated […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Conservatives, Liberals, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, Yann Martel

Salvaging love

04/02/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Review by Catherine Nutter Saskatchewan writer Leona Theis’s second novel The Art Of Salvage, (Coteau Books, 347 pp., $19.95) deals with classic themes — family, heredity, and the influence of the past upon the present. If this novel were a painting, it would be a prairie landscape with small human figures tenaciously present in the […]

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Narrative interruptus

02/11/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Review by Frank Moher Brett Josef Grubisic’s first novel, The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press, 240 pp., $19.95), is going to be terrific once he finishes it. For now, we’re offered this odd case of narrative interruptus. For nearly all of its length, The Age of Cities is charming, droll, and absorbing. In unassuming […]

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Update

02/08/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Update to story below: Calgary Herald Editor-in-Chief Lorne Motley has issued a response. He says the paper has commissioned Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland to write a piece on Rick McNair for this coming weekend.

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Theatre wiz Rick McNair deserved better

02/05/2007 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

Brian Brennan Rick McNair died in Winnipeg this past week. The Winnipeg newspapers did the right thing. They ran big stories saying what a wonderful contribution Rick had made to the local theatre scene as former artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, storyteller, actor, playwright, opera librettist, and […]

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Trailer Park Girl

01/21/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Review by Catherine Nutter Tanya Chapman’s debut novel, King (Coach House Press, 224 pp., $21.95), is a coming of age story as gritty as diamond dust. Chapman’s hard-drinking characters are wildflowers, gracing the liminal space between trailer park and open road. Small but shining jewels of truth are revealed in the smoky beer-funk of a […]

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October 28, 2000. Saturday Night. “Book Club”

11/10/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

On November 7th, the 2006 Giller Prize went to Toronto MD-author Vincent Lam for his book Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, published by Doubleday Canada. In this column of six years ago from “Saturday Night,” Frank Moher took on the big-publisher, Torontocentric award. The juries and short-lists for the Giller have improved since those days, though […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada, Giller Prize, literature

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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