AltWeeklies Wire
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
Author Looks to Unlock Truth of Houdini's Final Vanishing Actnew
J. Gordon Whitehead visited Houdini backstage and punched the master of escape in the stomach. Houdini died a few days later. Was it murder or a dumb prank gone wrong? Don Bell, one of Montreal's great essayists, spent the last two decades of his life tackling the mystery.
Montreal Mirror |
Kristian Gravenor |
11-04-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
