Upcoming TINARS

What do you find scarier: the prospect of spending an afternoon catching up with your extended family or that giant pool of blood slowly spreading across the living room carpet? Isn’t it high time that a so-called horror novel addressed this subtle yet significant distinction?

Is ghostwriting suicide notes really the best way to pay off your debt to a drug dealer? And can someone who’s barely winning the battle with his own demons really afford to take on those of complete strangers? Such questions haunt Mason, the protagonist of acclaimed author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s highly anticipated novel, Ghosted (Random House).

To celebrate the re-issue of his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press), scholar and activist Geoffrey Reaume will conduct a walking tour of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) grounds.

How can you chronicle constant change? Over the past dozen or so years, the Canadian Zine scene has generated more waves than the Atlantic ocean. The Montreal-based writer, publisher and editor Jeff Miller has served as a force behind many of these tides. His commentaries on Canadian youth culture have been compared to the best parts of Al Burian and Jonathan Goldstein.