June 28, 2013
My high school career counseling sessions throbbed back into my head when I read the “writhed in discontent” opening passage to Max Braithwaite’s The Night We stole the Mounties Car, the 1972 Leacock Medal winner.
1973 "Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory"
by Donald Bell
1973 "Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory"
by Donald Bell
July 5, 2013
Driving a rented Volkswagen through central Alberta in late April of this Canus Humorous year, I am surrounded by skiffs of snow, patches of brown grass, and puffs of dust ...
1974 Bandy- "That's Me in the Middle"
by Donald Jack
by Donald Jack
July 12, 2013
Me in the Middle, the second
installment in the Bartholomew Bandy series and the second, imaginary Bandy memoir to win the Leacock
Medal for Donald Jack, was another one of those Canus Humorous books that I
read with the help of ...
1975 "Good Place to Come From"
by Morley Torgov
1976 "The Luck of the Irish"
by Harry J. Boyle
by Morley Torgov
July 19,2013
For a long time, I would reconcile my hours of work with the
meager sales of my Don Quixote in a government office parody (Don Quincy de la Mangement: The Life and
Adventures of the Most Strategic, Integrated and Aligned Servant of the Public)
with a typical writer’s rationalization.
1976 "The Luck of the Irish"
by Harry J. Boyle
July 26, 2013
The “miracle” at the core
of Harry J. Boyle’s 1976 Leacock Medal winner Luck of the Irish is eminently
explainable and even commonplace. Few
readers would evade this assessment