Not only has Don Gillmor won countless literary prizes including last year’s GG win for non-fiction, but he can lay claim to an epic personal phone message from John Malkovich. Certainly an unstoppable literary force no matter what, a long-ago encounter with “a tall elegant woman” on Parliament Hill threw him a persistently lucky curve ball.
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The luck of meeting (and marrying) a man who instantly makes you want to slide your hand between the snaps of his cowboy shirt — fortune rarely smiles so widely. The formidable, lovable Lorna Crozier recently had devastatingly bad luck, too; her new memoir is a stunning tribute to her life with P...
A GG-award nominated playwright and the 2020/21 Canadian Writer-in-Residence in the Calgary Distinguished Writer’s Program at UCalgary, Meg Braem once shared a serendipitous moment of intimate commiseration with a stranded bison; nothing has been the same since.
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Actor, TV host, activist and writer Lisa Ray once pushed away food to define herself in response to a tempestuous relationship with her mother. Now, she embraces food with joy and health.
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