January 8, 2006. I sit in the chapel at Paperman and Sons funeral home on Jean Talon street among Irving Layton's ...
By Anne Cimon
Interviews
Ask any book lover to recount the roots of their passion and you'll often hear a story of one specific book, ...
By Ian McGillis
I arrived in Montreal in 2001 as one more procurer of an escapist's hideaway. I was taking a risk in coming here, ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
A typical writing day? I wake up and go for a walk. I pace out my plots on pavement. I contemplate the concrete ...
By Marci Denesiuk
"I hope I die before I get old," sang The Who's Roger Daltrey before he got old. Aging may not be a picnic, but ...
By Claire Holden Rothman
It’s probably not a label William Weintraub ever expected to have attached to him, even by default, but he has ...
By Joel Yanofsky
McGimpsey’s file already includes three collections of poetry – Lardcake, Dogboy, and Hamburger ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
“They have a passion to do it. They’re highly intelligent, deeply in love with literature. They’re often writers ...
By Ian McGillis
It was probably inevitable. Write a debut novel called Skinny, in which you do an almost frighteningly good ...
By Ian McGillis
The Memory Artists is a tragicomedy with a flip postmodern heart. Set in contemporary Montreal, largely in ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
It's a bright, mild afternoon in early March when I ring Mary Soderstrom's doorbell, the kind of day that gives ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Touted as funny, even hilarious, I can see you being invisible has a frightening texture. Set for the most ...
By Andrew Steinmetz