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Most of What Follows Is True is an examination of the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the "real world" and the stories we tell to explain the world to ourselves.

“Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

'I'll kill him!' said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him ('Run!') into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them.

Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Munro's Ontar

Over the past decade, the magic of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has spread across the globe, touching the imagination of hundreds of millions of people of all ages. From the 1997 U.K.

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of “The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself — a writer’s pointed, cutt

Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media.

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport.

When Alice Ozma was in fourth grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for a hundred consecutive nights.

The essential guide for describing the extraordinary--the must-have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives.

Students in a high school media literacy course learn to apply the critical tools they use to study books, poetry and short stories, to also analyze the popular culture of movies, music and televis

The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainment - they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives.

"Stunning...This is Kathryn Harrison in top form."'Augusten Burroughs In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents