AltWeeklies Wire
Mom Troublesnew
Flanagan opines on upper-class housewifery.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
04-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Chop Chopnew
Ruth Reichl discusses the pleasures and perils of magazine editing.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
04-21-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Quantum Qualitynew
Mobius Dick is a page-turning fusion of
fiction and physics.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-24-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Andrew Crumey, Mobius Dick
Tunnel Visionnew
Trussoni wastes her talent in this memoir of her
Vietnam-vet father.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-17-2006 |
Nonfiction
Where the Boys Arenew
The Skills to Pay the Bills is a light look at the Beasties’ place in hip-hop history.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Loser Chicnew
Merot’s Mammals makes alcoholism and failure fun.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-24-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Mammals, Pierre Merot
Bloody Valentinenew
Subtle magic clashes with pulp fiction storytelling in Eden Robinson's tortured love story.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Blood Sports, Eden Robinson
The Crux of the Crustaceannew
Chomping down on David Foster Wallace’s new book of essays, Consider the Lobster.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
01-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Good, Bad and Bigfoot Autobiographiesnew
The Montreal Mirror reviews the year in books, including categories like Best Anti-diet Book and Trend That Must End: The Pornoir.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-27-2005 |
Books
Tags: yearinreview2005
Bigfoot Tells All in Me Write Booknew
Given that Bigfoot was always a creature more animal than human, expectations for his memoir weren’t high. Fortunately, Graham Roumieu’s brilliantly funny illustrations do much to fill in the inevitable gaps.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-19-2005 |
Fiction
My Big Fat Hip Weddingnew
In her memoir of growing up as one of the white minority on the upper West Side of New York, Susan Jane Gilman speaks to heterosexual feminists and second-generation hipsters.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
01-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Author Expects Bitter Fight in Iraq to Continuenew
The Toronto author who covered the invasion of Iraq for Harper's asks when Americans will realize that the vestige of democracy is gone and they're living under a totalitarian regime.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Saving the U.S. from Its Real Journalismnew
Structured like a parody of a high school history textbook, the book is so often on the mark in its satire of American history, institutions and self-centeredness that it may very well end up being used by some high school teacher this year.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-04-2004 |
Nonfiction
