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Megan Ogilvie Dishes on the Hidden Horrors in Fast Food and How to Combat Them
Toronto Star columnist Megan Ogilvie reveals the tiny terrors hiding in fast food, and how to combat them.
Deryn Collier: Set Your Mystery in Canada
What does it mean for our culture, when our writers are told to set their books somewhere, anywhere, else?
If You’re Going to Read Just One Book This Summer, Why Not Read Two?
As for fostering a vibrant literary culture, the one-book-per-summer approach is having us come up seriously short.
Tricia Dower: True Confessions of a Clandestine Summer Reader
"Through my clandestine summer reading I was beginning to see that love and pain sat next to each other."
Alice Petersen's Short Story Playlist
"Individual short stories should be as honoured as novels, in my opinion."
Julie Booker's Oh Canada Picture Book List
Not only is Julie Booker an author, but she is also a teacher-librarian for primary grades. Her picture book list is perfect Canada Day fare.
Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang: An Excerpt
An excerpt from the reissued edition of Mowat's classic book.
John Lawrence Reynolds on a Return to Fiction after Almost a Decade
John Lawrence Reynolds on his return to fiction, a story about a moral woman trying to live an immoral life.
Kerri Cull: Summer Reads by Women Writers
The Book Fridge's Kerri Cull picks some great summer reading.
Art Critic and Writer David Balzer believes everything needs to be made just a little bit strange.
[Podcast]: David Balzer talks to Julie Wilson about optimism, art analysis, and the uncanny.