The Best Canadian Essays 2010

by Boyd, Alex; Al-Solaylee, Kamal

• ISBN13: 9781926639178
• ISBN10: 1926639170
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Tightrope Books, Inc.

Summary

Reflecting the depth of contemporary Canadian nonfiction, this collection showcases the quality and stunning diversity of essays culled from a year of magazine publications. This 2010 edition covers an impressive variety of topics that include a history of a customizable Christ, the Iranian revolution, the legalization of gay marriage, the inventors of Botox, and the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

Author Biography

Alex Boyd is the author of poems, fiction, reviews, and essays and has been published in magazines and newspapers such as Taddle Creek, dig, Books in Canada, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and online publications such as the Danforth Review. He was the host of the IV Lounge Reading Series for five years. He is a coeditor of the online journal Northern Poetry Review, and his poetry collection Making Bones Walk won the Gerald Lampert Award. Kamal Al-Solaylee is a writer and former drama critic of the Globe and Mail. He is the program director for the Ryerson University School of Journalism. He is the former production editor of Report on Business magazine, a theatre critic for Eye Weekly, and a feature writer for the National Post. He’s written for The Globe and Mail’s Travel and Focus sections as well as its Television magazine. They both live in Toronto, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Skin Deep	p. 3
Citizen Uprising	p. 17
The Case of the Customized Christ	p. 45
The Things Ink May Do	p. 51
Revolution of the Two Ahmads	p. 71
Honeymoon's Over: What's Next for the Gay Rights Movement	p. 83
Territory of Unrequited Dreams	p. 99
This Is Your Brain On Love	p. 113
Last Poems	p. 123
Preparations for the End of the World as We Know It	p. 147
The Illegals	p. 165
The Wild Quest	p. 179
The Brothers Kramm	p. 193
Walking the Way	p. 205
Prodigal Band	p. 227
The Future Has Begun	p. 239
Contributor Biographies	p. 255
Permission Acknowledgements	p. 259
Editor Biographies	p. 261
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