May 15, 2012 3:59 pm
These may seem like strange words coming from Irish novelist John Boyne, who has almost exclusively written about the past and achieved worldwide recognition for his book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which was set during the Holocaust. But he’s always looking for parallels between the past and the present.
February 2, 2012 10:47 am
It’s like the Devil’s little tourist guide to where sin lies — and where it doesn’t.
January 4, 2012 2:42 pm
Yes, it can be frustrating, difficult, and extremely exhausting to cultivate a wonderful piece of writing. But despite the obstacles of writer's block and trying to find widespread success, well-known author Robert Munsch encourages young writers to keep working at it — as he continues to do so himself.
December 5, 2011 1:26 pm
Chuck Palahniuk is in the business of writing strange, original, but highly enjoyable stories. His twelve novels have essentially created a genre of their own, each with some twist, something horrifying or disgusting, or some weird but wonderful plot that readers now expect from him.
November 28, 2011 2:16 pm
In 2009, University of Ottawa mathematics and statistics professor Robert Smith? and his students wrote a paper When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection. After two years of significant media buzz about his unusual publication, Smith? has returned as the editor of a collection of essays on the undead, Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies.
Hockey Renaissance woman and former Concordia Stinger Lisa-Marie Breton-Lebreux lapped a life goal last month, winning the Clarkson Cup — for a third time.
The boy’s club scenario is not specific to SNL. In 2009, there were no women writers on the Jay Leno Show, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
A lot of drivers have this narcissistic notion that they are the best motorists in the world. It’s as if they believe Jeff Gordon taught them to drive, when, realistically, most drivers behave as if they’ve ingested Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood.
