King of Horror
Can words on the page be truly scary? While some choose to read the classics like Lovecraft, and others enjoy the pulp of Clive Barker, there is only one King.
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Film adaptation reignites interest in novel
“At the precise instant of India’s arrival at independence, I tumbled forth into the world,” says Saleem Sinai in the 1981 novel Midnight’s Children written by acclaimed author Salman Rushdie.
The creative shall inherit the earth
Are you the intellectual or the creative person? Do your school projects involve symbolism, color schemes and artistic vision? Or are you burying yourself in endless piles of academic research, books and drafts of papers not yet published?
The delightful horror continues
Justin Cronin doesn’t particularly fit the bill of your average blockbuster writer.
It’s not Harry Potter…but it’s still pretty good
The hype that has surrounded her most recent publication, an adult fiction novel entitled The Casual Vacancy, is proof of how much weight lies on this author’s shoulders.
“Forgiveness is a long hard road.”
Ian Truman, a graduate of Concordia’s creative writing program, released his second novel, Tales of Lust, Hate and Despair, this past summer, about a man from Montreal named Samuel Lee who is serving a life sentence in prison.
A girl with big dreams; a little boy manqué
Mister Roger and Me by Marie-Renée Lavoie is not one of those action-based novels where every chapter ends with a bang.
Do we really fear Muslim immigrants or is it a myth?
“Once again, a fever is infecting the minds of many Westerners. We must not allow history to repeat itself,” writes Doug Saunders in his latest book The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?, which aims to show that the western population’s fear of Muslim immigrants, is nothing but a huge misunderstanding.
Of flies and men
A good piece of literature should always leave one feeling that each page was worth the time it took to turn it. Unless it’s truly horrid writing (or has been penned by anyone with a reality television show), most books will accomplish that.
Come hell or high water
Simon Walls just added a rather important feather to his cap. Musician, check. Traveler, check. Teenage mentor, check. Walked across Canada, check. And now he’s an author; a raw, honest and introspective writer.
Digging deep but coming up short
It’s the crack of noon, so roll yourself out of bed, brew a cup of extra strong tea and settle in with the philosophically melancholy characters featured in Guillaume Morissette’s debut collection of stories and poems, I Am My Own Betrayal.
Judging a book by its author…
How do you judge a book? We’re told not to judge a book by its cover, but what about judging a book by its author?