A look at the Ontario Writer's Conference, sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer, and my journey towards print.

The literary inspiration behind a journey across Eastern Canada.

Christopher Moore's Bite Me: A Love Story is a welcome diversion in a genre in need of resuscitation.

Paul Goodman's 1960 work Growing Up Absurd reached under the surface of the growing affluence and materialism of western society to identify some of the major underlying disorders and failings of the time. As Mike Peters points out, we can still sense the turbulence and radical ideas of the coming decade in its pages -- a decade that profoundly shaped how we live now.

Grab a glass of wine, you'll need it to read this book.