All of my officially published pieces of journalism
An Almighty argument Internationally acclaimed spiritual scholar at Writers Fest discusses the modern world and G-O-D Armstrong: “Any idea we have of god is only an approximate knowledge.” Karen Armstrong is one of the world’s most popular and notable commentators on religious affairs. A sentence like this probably wouldn’t strike many of you, but what…
A post-apocalyptic ringmaster Margaret Atwood’s latest book tour finds her narrating the end of the world When I meet Jan Irwin for our interview, she’s sitting in a small coffee shop in the Glebe on one of the last warm mornings of a fading summer. On the table in front of her is a standard-sized…
A little spring before the sleep Autumn theatre is rich in colour So the days and nights cool down imperceptibly hour by hour as the great driving engine of summer slows down into fall. It’s a good season for Canadians. We understand this season. It’s one of work, one of activity, one of preparation for…
Dry paper Nothing beats a book in autumn Missing Persons by Rob McLennan (Mercury Press) Autumn is a season that more than any other seems devoted to reading. The crispness of leaves reminds you of the firm dryness of paper, the smell of a book lingers sometimes in your memory like that of firewood. Fortunately,…
An arsenal of eroticism Small Canadian press publishes two new books celebrating the complexity of sex “Why should anybody buy a book of lesbian S/M smut that was originally published in 1988, especially if the author is now using male pronouns and sporting a rather impressive beard, if I do say so myself?” The foreword…
Outwrite! Acclaimed author Nalo Hopkinson comes to the Cap In some form or another, the Agitate collective has been around Ottawa for five years, organizing events, throwing parties and workshops, spreading their fingers as so many other similar groups do in order to eventually find each other and join hands. Their latest effort is a…