Normally, a book about a charismatic professor/alcoholic who, through the force of his Stellar Personality, figuratively (and, quite literally, literally) seduces his impressionable students, isn't my cup of tea. Perhaps I know too many professors to truly enjoy or even believe the sexual predati...
DID I EVER YELL YOU Gord’s famous pick-up line, from the first time he introduced himself to Sylvie? Sad. Two hicks working for isolation pay deep in the blackfly-riddled thickets of Northern Ontario. “Well mother of Christ, they got Frenchies all the way up here now, do t...
The first time I saw her was terrible — her parents brought her in because she had stopped eating and she was in one of the rooms having a tube worked down her nose. I had paused on my way down the hall to visit Sylvia Embree dying of lung cancer because I could hear the doctors and nurses shuffl...