Every good bohemia needs its chroniclers, people who are of the scene but in crucial ways a little outside it too. ...
By Ian McGillis
Interviews
It's an unusually muggy September afternoon when I set out to meet with Martine Desjardins. In downtown Montreal ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
When you hear the word "vacation," what do you think of? Beaches and warm water, nice hotels with ...
By Ian McGillis
Joyce Scharf used to make up bedtime stories for her now teenaged daughter, Grace. "Coming up with a new story ...
By Anne Chudobiak
Why YA? It's a question many writers working in the genre of Young Adult literature have had to contend with. ...
By Andrea Belcham
"It's strange talking about yourself," says Neil Smith as we sit down in Mile End's Arts Cafe to talk about him. ...
By Ian McGillis
Missing the Ark represents a return to beginnings for the Mile End-based writer and spoken-word artist ...
By Andrea Belcham
"Why not?"
A dangerous question, glimmering with risk and possibility, but one Montreal novelist Anita Rau ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff
DeNiro's Game, Montreal author Rawi Hage's debut novel about a young man yearning to escape war-torn ...
By Faustus Salvador
It's a drizzly Thursday night on St-Laurent, that great boulevard where all that is Montreal collides and ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
"Post-prairie poet" is an appealing phrase, one that could become fashionable in years to come, and yet it's ...
By Faustus Salvador
For the past decade or so, I've been sharing my deep, dark secret with students across the country: I hated poetry ...
By Carolyn Marie Souaid