Remembering Andrew Pyper, the bestselling author who shattered boundaries between literary and genre fiction
“When you look back in fifty years on the great writers in Canadian literature, I think he’s going to have to be included in that.”
Gail Crowther’s latest volume examines the underappreciated legacy of Dorothy Parker’s time in Hollywood
One thing Crowther does accentuate is Parker's versatility.
Is licensing authors’ work to train AI a Faustian bargain?
What is a reasonable price for becoming an active participant in one's own obsolescence?
Bestselling author Stephanie Wrobel talks about plotting, the difference between suspense and surprise, and the influence of one of cinema’s masters on her latest novel
"I don't think any of us are 100% good or 100% bad. And I think it's kind of boring to portray characters that way."
Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
David Leonard takes the helm as executive director at the Writers’ Trust
"We have to think of writers and books as not just writers and books," Leonard says.
“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story
The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.
Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.