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My Recent Articles

• Love and joy, pain and misery, drugs and hugs
  Globe & Mail review of Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
• Small-town madness
  Ottawa Citizen review of Nathan Whitlock's A Week of This
• My Methy, Methy Life
  Globe & Mail review of two young adult books on drug addiction; Tweak by Nic Sheff and Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky
• Hardly at a loss for words Diane Schoemperlen turns a tale of spurned love into a literary frolic
  Ottawa Citizen review of Diane Schoemperlen's At A Loss for Words
• Required Reading
  Ottawa Citizen Fall books preview
• Two Quebec Solitudes
  Globe & Mail review of How to Become an Angel by Jean Barbe and Augustino and the Choir of Destruction by Marie-Claire Blais
• If Only...
  Ottawa Citizen review of The First Man in My Life
• Scary Stories for Smart Teens
  Globe & Mail review of two Young Adult books.
• Moving on from the Wreckage
  Globe and Mail review of After the Wreck, Joyce Carol Oates
• Exotic and Familiar
  tyee.ca review of Caroline Adderson's Pleased to Meet You
• Jewels of Revelation
  Globe & Mail review of Giller nominated Home Schooling by Carol Windley
• It's Time To Book Off
  The Citizen Weekly's Guide to Great Reading Ahead
• Eulogy for Znaimer's Dream
  thetyee.ca article on Bell Globemedia purchase of Chum Ltd.
• His Pain, Our Gain
  Globe and Mail review of Anderson Cooper's Dispatches from the Edge
• Coupland hijacks his own jPod universe ...
  Ottawa Citizen review of Douglas Coupland's Giller long-list nominated novel.
• Why Women Go To Strip Clubs
  We are acquiring power. But is it feminist or chauvinist?
• A Wrinkle in Time
  On turning 45
• The Private Lives of Men
  Confession-hungry or cave man?
• Part Rock Concert, Part Mystery
  World Youth Day stars the new pope. For me, Catholicism holds a different allure.
• Ghost of a Chance
  Globe and Mail review of Gotta Find Me An Angel by Brenda Brooks
• Cruise Control
  BC's economy thrives on Alaska Cruise business, Vancouver Courier
• Pall in the Family
  Globe and Mail review of I Am a Red Dress by Anna Camilleri
• City Celebrates Fests with Cash
  Saving Vancouver's multicultural festivals
• The Apprenticeship of a CanLit Giant
  Globe and Mail reveiw of Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer by Donez Xiques
• Adderson puts ordinary folk into extraordinary situations
  Vancouver Courier profile of writer Caroline Adderson
• Meet Me at the Magazine Counter
  Herizons Magazine commentary