Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. In the Sept. 15, 2001 edition of Saturday Night magazine, Frank Moher, backofthebook.ca’s editor, wrote with tongue only-slightly-in-cheek about the great volume of short story collections published in Canada, perhaps inspired by having the great Ms. Munro among us. His suggestion for a short-story moratorium did […]
Elmore Leonard’s tasty dialogue
By Mark Leiren-Young So I meet Elmore Leonard on one of the only junkets I’ve ever covered for the Georgia Straight. I’m with a group of just over a half-dozen journalists at a studio in LA and we’ve screened Get Shorty and when we get to the Four Seasons Hotel to do the junket interviews […]
The Giller Prize deserves an award
By Frank Moher A bunch of years ago now, I wrote an article for Saturday Night magazine decrying the fact that the Giller Prize was a captive of big name publishers and authors. On the basis of the long list for the 2012 Giller that was released last week, as well as the one from […]
