Oct 6, 2018 | All Things Consoled, Postings, Press Coverage
I very much enjoyed talking to Brian Bethune of Maclean’s magazine about my memoir All Things Consoled. This link will take you there. I should probably correct two small details. My parents were 89, not 88, when my mother’s health fell apart. And she had...
Oct 5, 2016 | Press Coverage
Marsha Lederman in the Globe & Mail gives an exciting account of the recent trip to New Zealand by Canadian writers. I was lucky enough to be one of them. Thinking back on it, it seems to me that I went very far away and then I came home again, not necessarily...
Sep 8, 2016 | Postings, Press Coverage
In August and early September a little band of Canadians travelled to writers’ festivals in New Zealand and Australia, so now I am a connoisseur of the flat white, a more potent latte than you’ll find in Canada and a source of rivalry between the two countries down...
Nov 16, 2015 | HWL-Review, Press Coverage, Review
A four N review by Susan G. Cole of His Whole Life in Toronto’s NOW Magazine calls the novel “superb,” “a poignant portrait of a complex family dealing with loss and regret.” Well, to be accurate, she says, “nevertheless...
Sep 22, 2015 | Featured Media Audio, His Whole Life, Press Coverage, Reader Resources
Shelagh Rogers did an on-stage interview with me about His Whole Life for The First Chapter, her CBC Radio books program. We spoke on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the Woody Point Writers’ Festival in Woody Point, Newfoundland. Listen to our...
Sep 9, 2015 | His Whole Life, Press Coverage, Reader Resources
The Globe and Mail interviewed me about His Whole Life and about which books have meant the most to me. The first question they asked was why I wrote my new novel (later I got to talk about big-band music, Pauline Kael’s fearless movie reviews, and a sexy...
