Category: Culture – literature

My Canada, 93/150: The Callwood connections

Callwood had no problem whatsoever with being a journalist and marching in the parade.

My Canada, 91/150: Printing a nation

One of my favourite little museums in Canada is the Mackenzie Printery in Queenston, Ontario.

My Canada, 89/150: The play’s the thing

A play needs to be remounted to remain art its audience can experience. Many new Canadian plays launch, then disappear.

My Canada, 87/150: The many colours of Kamal

I didn’t know much about Kamal’s personal story, when he was a theatre reviewer and I a theatre publicist.

My Canada, 85/150: The world we want, and the world we have

I think of these authors, in my private filing system, as “my Canadian thinkers.”

My Canada, 84/150: Taking her time

I’ve never heard that audience quiet down faster than when Teva Harrison began speaking.

My Canada, 83/150: The grand man of letters

Davies’ novels can be wickedly funny, funnily old world, and are crammed with capital “C” characters.

My Canada, 82/150: Friend of my youth

To grow up as a girl with ambitions in a Canadian small town meant facing the sneer, “Who do you think you are?”