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"e;[Eleanor's] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness . . . and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions . . . have endeared her to readers and listeners."e;Carol ShieldsEleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five-year anniversary, presents her best conversations from the show, including Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, W.G. Sebald, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, and nearly a dozen others who share their views on process and the writing life.Eleanor Wachtel has been host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company since its inception in 1990.

A suite of dark, unflinching elegies for a working-class city and community driven to the brink.

Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "e;often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get."e; Elegant, wry, compassionate and mischievous, Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and heart.

The only critical guide to the short fiction of Hugh Hood (Montreal's Proust, and author of 30 full-length prose works).

Peopled by Watermelon Queens and ten-year-old business men, these joyful, brilliantly crafted pieces speak to a magical time long forgotten.

A new collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Alphabet, named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014.

A hard-drinking hockey journalist encounters unsavory characters while on assignment in Kansas and realizes his life can't be the same.

The Lord Nelson Tavern: a Halifax watering hole in the early 1960s. The group of young university students who hang out therea ramshackle coterie of aspiring artists, economists, poets, and philosopherscome together to gossip and ponder the big questions of art and life, all the while pining after the vain and untouchable Francesca.Though these friends soon drift apart, their early rivalries, jealousies and conquests will continue to reverberate. In the novels seven interlocking sequences, Ray Smith explores the often decisive and even fatal impact of seemingly innocuous choices upon the course of our lives. With unforgettable scenes that marry the sacred and the profane, and with structural innovations that recall the works of Barthelme and Nabokov, Lord Nelson Tavern is a must-read cult-classic of Canadian fiction.

Praise for Judith McCormack and BackspringNominated for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardA well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormacks treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive.The Winnipeg Review"e;A joy to read."e;Nino Ricci"e;A wonderfully and uniquely gifted storyteller."e;Midwest Book ReviewEduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Genevive. Genevive researches fungi and likes to catalog her orgasms. But when Eduardo is caught in an explosion and rumors of arson begin to circulate, both his marriage and his fledgling architecture firm verge on collapse. Gorgeous, colorful, and richly described, Backspring is a sensual taxonomy of desire.Judith McCormack, born near Chicago, has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award.

"e;Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia."e;Nathan EnglanderThe LifeboatAll night in his lifeboat my father sangto keep the voices of the other menwho cried in the wreckage from reaching him,he sang what he knew of the requiem,of the hit parade and the bits of hymns,he sang until he would never sing again,scalding his raw throat with sea-wateruntil his ribs heaved, until the saltwept from his eyes on dry land,flecked at his lips in his squalling rages,streaked the sheets in his night sweatsas night after night the reassembled shipscattered its parts on the shore of his bed,and the lifeboat eased him out againto drown each night among singing men.Inspired by a shipwreck endured by her father during the Second World War, and by his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and eventual suicide, Inheritance is a powerful poetic debut by the winner of the 2013 Boston Review Fiction Contest and The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award.

The essays and reportage in How to Breathe Underwater offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical changefrom the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governments attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry ofThe Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cubas economic limbo after the fall of the Soviet empire. In field reports that survey the rise of the internet in the 1990s, analyze the changing nature of mass culture in the digital age, and provide a multifaceted look at how human industry is shaping the planets foundations, this collection presents a fractal portrait of a society in rapid flux.Chris Turner is the author of four previous books, a nine-time National Magazine Award winner and a sought-after speaker on the rise of the global green economy, as well as a celebrated feature writer for The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Globe & Mailand other major publications. His lively and passionate reportage, along with his incisive essays and shrewd cultural criticism, have for the past fifteen years made essential contributions to the debates on our climate, culture, and technology. They are collected here for the first time.Praise for How To Breathe Underwater“Chris Turner is among the best magazine writers on the planet. His writing is so beautiful, wry and well-reported that it's spellbinding. And spellbreaking: He wakes you up, makes you sit upright and look afresh at our culture, our climate, and where we need to go.This is literary nonfiction at its finest.”Clive Thompson,Wiredcolumnist and author ofSmarter Than You Think"e;Chris Turner is the master of long-form journalism in Canada, a smart, funny, and endlessly curious envoy to everywhere. This collection gathers his best work, forging links of meaning in a chain of superb reporting and writing; readers will see many choice pieces and realize, maybe for the first time, that they were all fashioned by the same indefatigable intelligence."e;Mark Kingwell, the author of A Civil Tongue"e;Whatever you choose to call this kind of stylishly reported, deeply engaged, richly nuanced, gorgeously written nonfiction--saturation reportage, new journalism, longform writing--it without question qualifies as real literature. It's the only kind of journalism that gets remembered, and the only kind that produces real change. Chris Turner has been writing it since he started taking notes.”Ian Brown, author of The Boy in the Moon and Globe & Mail feature writer

Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor AwardNovelists: the soul of an age, certainly. Brilliant? Perhaps. Yet arent they also doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecureresentful, awkward, annoyingdemanding, deluded, and vexingly indifferent to reality? New from short fiction devote C.P. Boyko, Novelists is a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivalling Vanity Fair for its satirical wit though not, mercifully, for its length.PRAISE FOR NOVELISTS Proudly, gloriously, gleefully old-fashioned in their style and settings, these largely comic stories about the worst traits of artists are more serious than they at first seem: they depict the petty insecurities that fuel every creative act.Russell SmithIf you are a normal person, these stories, with their pitch-perfect satirical humour and their finely tuned sentences, will make you laugh out loud. If you are a writer, first you will squirm with recognition while envying his impressive vocabulary, his nimble grammar, and his startling imagery, and then youll laugh out loud.Diane SchoemperlenPRAISE FOR C.P. BOYKOReaders will enjoy the authors versatility, quirky (sometimes uproarious) sense of humor, sardonic view of the world, and fruitful imagination Libraries with any short-fiction readers should buy this book and keep an eye out for the next one.Booklist, starred reviewNothing short of astonishing.The WalrusKeep your eye on this young Canadian talent.ChatelaineStunning Boyko has an unstoppable imagination.The Globe & MailStealthy, seductive A collection that in many ways will provide thought-fodder, not to mention good old-fashioned pleasure, for months. The Montreal GazetteFans of satirical fiction will love this impeccably researched and unflinchingly intelligent. The National Post

The winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award explores the extremes of joy and sorrow in a formally diverse collection.

Present-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries arent exclusively scientific: from the moons of Pluto to the Doppler effect, the night sky screens a place where math meets myth. Now, in Zero Kelvin, in scenes that shift from the mountains of Goma to the mountains of the moon, from galaxies that feast upon their neighbours to a solar sail unfurling above Earth's orbit, Richard Normans poetry probes both newly glimpsed corners of the universe, and the myths which bring them into focus.ExperimentIt is a human urgeto orbit backwards at great speed.Experimentally, you do itand then the crack of lightning,the open-ended snowflake, splits the sky.Just as the sculptor cut the fat off space,you going backwards renders time.Seconds drop like filingswhen a magnet is turned off.Praise for Zero Kelvin"e;All at once the elements collapse and expand, become inseparable and remote, beautiful and terrifying this is what Richard Normans poems do to us. We feel stars, those tiny suns, as words blazing through the page; like dust or sand they leave a residue in our thoughts, worlds deep, so we might inadvertently carry them to work, or to the bed of a lover. Here is where language consumes us, absolute and intangible, between reality and myth."e; Leigh Kotsildis, author of Hypotheticals

A CANADIAN POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE NATIONAL POSTWINNER OF THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDAlexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiverall of them sharpened to a fine point. This is an excellent and entertaining collection.TIMOTHY STEELEIn Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life:They all had names like Jennifer or Lynneor Katherine; they all had bone-blonde hair,that wet, flat cut with bangs. They pulled your chairfrom underneath you, shoved their small fists inyour face. Too soon, you knew it would begin,those minkish teeth like shrapnel in the air,the Bacchic taunts, the Herculean dare,their soccer cleats against your porcine shin,that laugh, which sounded like a hundred birdsescaping from a gunshot through the reedsand now you have to face it all again:the joyful freckled faces lost for wordsin supermarkets, as those red hands squeezeyour own. Its been so long! They say. Amen.Olivers poems, which she describes as text-based home movies, unveil a cinematic vision of suburbia at once comical and poignant: framed to renew our curiosity in the mundane and pressing rhyme and metre to their utmost, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway is a five-star performance from Canadas new formalist sensation.Alexandra Oliver is in full command of a saber wit and impeccable ear. Lucky the reader along for the ride.JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONTBrilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice.CHARLES MARTINAlexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, Canada and divides her time between Toronto and Glasgow, Scotland. Her most recent book is Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (Biblioasis).She currently teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' PickA gorgeous debut.JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The OrendaAt the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. Hell send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, the small rough patches on a boys foot? HIV. Iris will make him comfortable. Theyll move on.Then there will be sleeplessness, rationed energy, a censuring of hope: the doctors disease. Iris sees that one all the time.Henry Bryce has come to Blantyre to work off the grief he feels for his old life, but he cant adjust to the hopelessness that surrounds him. He relies increasingly upon Sister Iriss steady presence. Yet its not until an accident brings them both to a village outpost that Bryce realizes the personal sacrifices Iris has made for her medical training, or that Iris in turn comes to fathom the depth of Henrys loss.The Strength of Bone is the story of a Western doctor, a Malawian nurse, and the crises that push both of them to the brink of collapse. With biting emotion and a pathological eye for detail, novelist and medical doctor Lucie Wilk demonstrates how, in a place where knowledge can frustrate as often as it heals, true strength requires the flexibility to let go.Advance Praise for The Strength of BoneIn supple, beautiful prose, Lucie Wilk recounts a doctors struggle with technology and faith, and with the mysteries of death and love The Strength of Bone is an extraordinary look at the clash of worlds.ANNABEL LYON, author of The Golden Mean and The Sweet GirlLucie Wilk grew up in Toronto and completed her medical training in Vancouver. Her short fiction has been nominated for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize Anthology, longlisted for a CBC Canada Writes literary prize, and has appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire and Shortfire Press. She is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She practices medicine and lives with her husband and two children in London, UK.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' Pick"e;Captivating . . . a story of blood, hatred, vengeance, and politics."e;Radio-CanadaAlberto Ventura has travelled to Chile to attend the funeral of his father, Roberto. A man hated and loved both by his family and the local people, Roberto was known in the village as an enigma, a rake, a controversial boss, and a quick-tempered thug. It's said that he has destroyed the family land by mass-farmingeucalyptus trees, and he's known to have killed a local boy in a fit of rage. Yet as Alberto delves into the rumours that obscure his father's deathwas it natural causes, vengeance, murder, or self-sacrifice?he finds the reputation at stake is his own.In a breath-catching story of race and identity, rife with Chile's centuries-old tension between natives and local landowners, Mauricio Segura'sEucalyptusinvestigates the flashpoint of one village community in an expanding world."e;Well-executed, with a cinematic quality and keen visual sense Segura locates the political through the personal in a way that is uncommon."e;Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books"e;A solid novelist of infallible instincts."e;L'Actualit

By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voceif at allWells has consistently said what he thinks aloud. The pieces in this collection comprise revisionist assessments of some big names in Canadian Poetry (Margaret Atwood, Lorna Crozier, Don McKay and Patrick Lane, among others); satirical ripostes parrying others' critical views (Andre Alexis, Erin Moure, Jan Zwicky); substantial appraisals of underrated or near-forgotten poets (Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, Peter Sanger, John Smith, Peter Trower, Peter Van Toorn); assessments of promising debuts (Suzanne Buffam, Pino Coluccio, Thomas Heise, Peter Norman) and much else besidesincluding a few surprises for anyone who thinks they have Wells's taste figured out.Zachariah Wells is the editor of Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and the author of two collections of poetry.

"e;Ask anyone what they love most about Winzer, and they seem always to tell you it's the people, the family and friends webbed around each of us. True. But for me the town is also, and perhaps mainly, the larger-than-life characters who ghost around in my imagination and my memory: rumrunners and prize fighters and elegant old ladies and one-eyed thugs and earnest well-meaning politicians and hucksters and hookers and crusty old editors. Many of them I remember meeting. Some of them I actually met."e; from The RiverThe River is Paul Vaseys tribute to a place he discovered by accident and loved over a lifetime. Chatty, anecdotal, personal and passionate, by one of Windsors most celebrated reporters and radio hosts, this meandering memoir winds its way around a river town whose sights and characters may never be fully charted: a Windsor that fired a reporters imagination, stole his heart, and eventually became the place he calls home.

A MILLIONS.COM MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2013A HYPOALLERGIC FALL LITERARY RELEASE TO KNOW ABOUTNorm Sibum is not everyone's cup of tea ... instead of breathing air he inhales the exhaust of apocalyptic times.Books in CanadaA place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who live there and drink at the nearby caf form the heart of Traymorean society. Their number includes: Eggy, red-faced, West Virginian, a veteran of Korea; Eleanor R (not Eleanor Roosevelt); Dubois, French Canadian, optimist; Moonface, waitress-cum-Latin-scholar and sexpot inexpert; and, most recently, our hero Calhoun. A draft dodger and poetical type.For a time all is life-as-usual: Calhoun argues with Eggy and Dubois, eats Eleanors cobblers, gossips of Moonface, muses on Virgil and the current President. With the arrival of a newcomer to Traymore, however, Calhouns thoughts grow fixated and dark. He comes to believe in the reality of evil. This woman breaks no laws and she inflicts no physical harmyet for the citizens of Traymore, ex-pats and philosophers all, her presence becomes a vortex that draws them closer to the America they dread.Intelligent and frighteningly absurd, with a voice as nimble as Gasss and satire that pierces like Wallaces, The Traymore Roomsis a sustained howl against libertarianism under George W. Bush.Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. The Traymore Rooms is his first novel.

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind.Russell Smith is the author of Girl Crazy and How Insensitive. Confidence, recently longlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is his US debut.

"e;Kociejowski draws on all these aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm."e; Michael Dirda, The Washington PostIn the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which the curious workings of fate and art's unbidden swerve intervene to shift the course of fortune.Carried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Maras, The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.

"e;Early encounters with malign adult power mark Gillian Davies as a brand marks flesh. In Sonia Tilson's beautifully designed novel, we see how in all her relationshipsfamily, friends, work, loveGillian is both vital and damaged, eager yet constrained. Tilson's engaging story features a host of memorable minor characters on both sides of the Atlantic, and it culminates in a most satisfying confront-the-abuser scene. A fine first novel."e;Cynthia FloodGillian Davieswas six years old when she was sent to aremote Welsh villageto escape the Blitz.She was told she was lucky: all the other evacuees were billeted in humblecottages while she wasto live in Maenordy, the isolated manor houseup on the hill. Yet it was here, in this place of supposed comfort and safety,that she suffered sexual abuse, the shame of which wouldalienate her from hermother and haunt her for the rest of her life.Decades later, Gillian is living in Canada and with a son and a granddaughter of her own when she receives word that her mother is dying.Though she hasntreturned to Wales since she left it as a young woman,she nowrushes backimpulsively, determined to reveal at long last to her mother what befell her asa child. But can she?Alternating between past and present, World War IIWales and Canada,TheMonkey Puzzle Treeis the passionate and disturbing account ofGillians struggle to accept her childhoodtrauma, forgive her mother, andconfront her abuserwho seems, she discovers, to be as dangerous asever."e;The Monkey Puzzle Treeis an emotional thriller. It is disturbing, intelligent and compulsively readable."e;Mary Borsky

If Colette Maitland were a musician, youd say she had perfect pitch."e;IsabelHugganA soldiers wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after herhusband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames atownwith gossip. A dog is shot. A heart attack survivor perplexes his familywith a newfound sense of religious euphoria, while a nursing home volunteerstruggles with the bad behaviour of one of her veteran patients.Compassionate, clear-eyed, probing grief and insularity, Colette Maitlandsshortfiction debut shows us the price of keeping the peace in a small town.Colette Maitlandwrites like a dream, with a touch that's compellingly subtlealmost deceptivelyso, since in these stories, dangerlurks around every corner, and trouble isresolved in the most surprising and unsentimental ways. By the end I felt I'dexperienceda literary sleight-of-hand. I had to double-check that I wasreading a debut collection and not the latest in a series of Maitland'swiseand lovely books.Charlotte Gill"e;Here are the stories you didn't know about the people you do know, and about strangers too, those people you pass on thestreet without giving them a second thought. ColetteMaitlandhas the inside track on the abiding truth that it is our storiesthat make us human, for better or worse. Keeping the Peace is a superb debut collection by a writer to watch."e;DianeSchoemperlenThese residents of Tim Horton's Nationstruggle with illness, death and depression and hang on as best they can withtrue grit. Raymond Carvermeets Norman Levine on these pages, which herald theappearance of a fine new writer of everyday realism.Antanas SileikaColette Maitland is the winner of a Kingston Literary Award, the WFNB Literary Competition, and the Ten Stories High Short Story Competition.

"Engaging, stirring and hard to put down."--The New York Times Book Review

"e;John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."e;Alice MunroThe Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award"e;Complicated, passionate, genuine."e;—ChatelaineWomen. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bony-butted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting. Among the innumerable wives, husbands, sisters, and in-laws vexed by short temper and insecurity throughout this short story collection, Cynthia Flood’s protagonists stand out as citizens of a reality that the rest of the world will only partially understand. New from the Journey Prize-winning author, Red Girl Rat Boy is a collection of astonishing range and assured technique, whose voices—gothic, peculiar, domestic, and strange—remain as passionate and complex as ever.Praise for Red Girl Rat Boy“Revenge and politics season this potent and passionate collection of stories. Flood excavates indelible histories that haunt even those who’ve shaken the dust of the past.” —Aritha van Herk, author of Judith“Flood’s eye is unflinching, her language energetic and precise, her vision bracing, passionate and entirely lacking in sentimentality.”—Nancy Richler, author of The Imposter Bride“The notary in ‘Dirty Work’ has ‘retired from witnessing how rough human existence is.’ Fortunately for us, Cynthia Flood has not … these stories prove her to be among our great North American fiction writers.”—Betsy Warland, author of Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing“Raw energy is Cynthia Flood’s territory. This is a superb collection.”—Laurie Lewis, author of Little Comrades“Cynthia Flood is full of surprises. If there’s one thing that characterizes her elegant, crystal-sharp short stories, it’s that element of surprise … they reward the attentive reader with surprise and delight”—Dave Margoshes, author of A Book of Great Worth

SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONWhat the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 filmHe had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. The film is The Great Escape (by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen); the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. He was part Jewish. Shortly after filming he died.In This Great Escape, Andrew Steinmetz tenderly reconstructs the life of a man seen by millions yet recognized by no one, whose historyfrom childhood flight from Nazism to suspicious death twenty years laterintersects bitterly, ironically, and often movingly with the plot of Sturgess great war film. Splicing together documentary materials with correspondence, diary entries, and Steinmetzs own travel journal, This Great Escape does more than reconstruct the making of a cinema classic: it is a poignant and moving testament to the complexity of human experience, a portrait of a family for whom acting was a matter of survival, and proof that our most anonymous, uncredited, and undocumented moments can brush against the zeitgeist of world history.

Marcel was the most underrated defenceman ever to play in the league. When he hit you, you were hit. He was a tremendous skater and defensively, he was as good as anyone. He might have been overlooked by the press, but he was never overlooked by his teammates. Years later, I brought him back to Detroit as a coach. He is very knowledgeable and a very astute observer of the game.Hall of Fame left-winger Ted Lindsay (Pronovosts teammate from 1949-57 and 1964-65)In the spring of 1950, Marcel Pronovost was called up from the minor leagues to play for the Detroit Red Wings during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The 18-year-old defenceman had never seen NHL ice time before, but his performance in the playoffs was so impressive that he took regular turns in the final series against the New York Rangers. That year, Marcel Provonost became the ninth player in history to win a Stanley Cup before playing a single regular-season NHL game.So began Pronovosts 65-year career in pro hockey. As a Red Wing he became a star defenceman in Detroits golden age, winning three more Stanley Cups between 1952 and 1955, and skating side-by-side with Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, and Terry Sawchuk (who became a lifelong friend). He played a pivotal role in the Toronto Maple Leafs' last Stanley Cup win in 1967. He earned recognition on the NHL's First and Second All-Star Teams. And he has continued to serve the game for decades, becoming one of the few NHLers to have success as a player, a coach, and as a scout.Now, with Marcel Pronovost: A Life in Hockey, this legendary defenceman and Hockey Hall of Famer tells these and other stories for the first time. With over 125 photos and with on-the-ice recollections from the most exciting Original Six Era games ever played, A Life in Hockey is a hard-hitting memoir, and an insiders take on playing, coaching, and scouting that spans seven decades, and surveys one of the longest hockey careers of all time. A must-have autobiography for Red Wings fans, Leafs fans, and hockey buffs everywhere.

What would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome? Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists? How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above the Spanish Steps? Are there ways to avoid Vespas on the sidewalks? Rules for carving a Piet? And exactly which painter is responsible for the ugliest Jesus in the history of Western Art?A tour of Rome like no other, the poems of Circus Maximus ask these questions and more. Join David Starkey as he shines a torch on the sights, sounds, mysteries and metaphors of the Eternal City.David Starkey is the former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, a senior Fulbright scholar, and a six-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. His latest volume of poetry is A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel (Biblioasis, 2010).