Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction - Softcover

Farr, Moira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887624766 ISBN 13: 9780887624766

Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub, 2009

Synopsis

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre, Cabin Fever celebrates two decades of writing with thirteen of the finest creative non-fiction pieces written by program participants.

Drawn primarily from the program's second decade, this anthology includes essays on a strikingly original and global range of topics by some of the best non-fiction writers in the country. Tara Grescoe goes in search of "pure" absinthe; Jeff Warren examines the way whales think; Megan Williams takes driving lessons in Rome; Bill Reynolds writes about the joys and dangers of riding a bicycle; Charlotte Gill gives us the dirt on her eighteen years as a tree planter; John Vigna confronts his relationship with a troubled brother; Margaret Webb takes a sexy road trip to find oysters; Jaspreet Singh ruminates on life in Kashmir in the age of plutonium; Jeremy Klaszus gets to know his grandfather, a Nazi.

About this title

About the Author:

Moira Farr is an award-winning writer and editor whose essays, reviews, and feature articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, THIS Magazine, Toronto Life, Chatelaine and several writing anthologies. Her first book, After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor’s Tale, was shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards. She is contributing editor for the Ryerson Review of Journalism and teaches magazine writing at Carleton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0887624766
• ISBN 13: 9780887624766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352