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Book Review: Sam D’Allesandro
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Book Review: Sam D’Allesandro

‘A dead lover wants your soul’

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Book review: Everything I Have Is Blue anthology
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Book review: Everything I Have Is Blue anthology

Wendell Ricketts’ labour of love

November 23, 2005
Book review: Hell hath no fury like a label scorned
Toronto

Book review: Hell hath no fury like a label scorned

September 28, 2005
Book review – Erotic terror
Culture

Book review – Erotic terror

And the perfect cock

August 3, 2005
Hogtown’s pioneering thespians
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Hogtown’s pioneering thespians

Love among the philistines

April 13, 2005
Hogtown’s pioneering thespians
Toronto

Hogtown’s pioneering thespians

Love among the philistines

April 13, 2005
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Black & glittering
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Black & glittering

Masterly structured chronicle of Thatcher-era Britain

October 27, 2004
Ever greater floods of cream
Toronto

Ever greater floods of cream

Purpling prose by the bucketful

September 1, 2004
I am my own personal transformation
Toronto

I am my own personal transformation

The book behind the Broadway hit

August 4, 2004
Fairies fall down dead
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Fairies fall down dead

Self-hatred stalks academe

April 14, 2004
Rectify my mudflag
Toronto

Rectify my mudflag

You whoopsie feltcher

February 18, 2004
Riding on the coattails of a generous & chatty queer uncle
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Riding on the coattails of a generous & chatty queer uncle

Surviving Ed’s ‘weirdo’ phase

December 24, 2003
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King Tut’s curse
Toronto

King Tut’s curse

A life told between the real & imaginary

October 1, 2003
Heathcliff, it’s me…
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Heathcliff, it’s me…

A roller-coaster of gothic-romantic excess

August 6, 2003
Writerly games
Toronto

Writerly games

Leaving love scars

July 9, 2003
From Creignish to the moon – and back
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From Creignish to the moon – and back

Does Ashley MacIsaac know what he’s saying?

June 11, 2003
Heart’s truth is writer’s compass
Toronto

Heart’s truth is writer’s compass

Wizowaty brings us home the wiser

January 22, 2003
Tóibín when he’s close to home
Toronto

Tóibín when he’s close to home

November 27, 2002
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