Q&A with John Ralston Saul
- Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:18
- Written by KARRY TAYLOR
Renowned author returns to his novelist roots for the first time since 1994
While best known for his philosophical work, most notably The Doubter's Companion, John Ralston Saul has also authored five novels.
Dark Diversions: A Traveller's Tale, published in the fall of 2012, is a reworking of a novel that had previously been published exclusively in French.
The novel — his first in eighteen years — is a work of black comedy told from the perspective of a morally-suspect journalist who loses himself during a series of jet-setting misadventures among dictators and socialites.
Thomas King and The Inconvenient Indian
- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 13:43
- Written by KARRY TAYLOR
Acclaimed Canadian novelist explores the history of aboriginal and non-aboriginal relations
Thomas King says he has spent a lifetime thinking about what it means to be an aboriginal in North America. Born in California in 1943 to a Greek mother and a Cherokee father, King immigrated to Canada in 1980 to teach native studies at the University of Lethbridge before moving on to teach English and drama at the University of Guelph.
2 commentsOne Book, One Celebration
- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:04
- Written by ANNA BROOKS
Library program surrenders to self-help book
What one word would you use to describe a karmic occurrence like hitting a string of green lights or getting the last chocolate bar in a vending machine? Most would not be able to help blurting out: awesome.
Awesome – the only word to appear twice on Lake Superior State University's annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse – is the subject of Canadian Neil Pasricha's novel The Book of Awesome, which has been chosen for this year's city-wide library initiative, One Book, One Calgary.
Book cover designer by day, award-winning novelist by night
- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 23:55
- Written by KARRY TAYLOR
C.S. Richardson publishes his much-anticipated second novel, The Emperor of Paris
By day, Scott Richardson is a book designer, and vice-president and creative director of one of Canada's largest publishing companies. One day, he decided to try writing a novel of his own in his spare time.
The result was The End of the Alphabet — written in the evenings over the course of several years and published under his writing name of C.S. Richardson. The novel went on to win the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in Canada and the Caribbean.