Goodfellas and Third Rails: The Conflict Between an Author’s Self-Interest...
Our guest today is Barry Knister who returned to fiction writing after a career of college teaching. His first novel, a gritty thriller titled The Dating Service had been published by Berkley. More...
View ArticlePolitics: Inescapable, Infuriating, and a Writer’s Best Friend?
By Richard Espinoza. (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAs of this post’s writing, Canada is in the grip of a polarizing and tight political campaign for the selection of our 42nd federal...
View ArticleOn Writing a Novel that People Call Political
Photo by João Silas on Unsplash I’ve been getting some interesting questions while on book tour. 1 – Do you plan on all on your novels being so political? And 2 – How come your novel doesn’t get more...
View ArticleWriting As Resistance
Over the past week, I’ve struggled to write. I’ve struggled to do many of the things that typically bring me joy or at least make me feel remotely content. Sleep has been elusive. These are difficult...
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