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Cabin Fever

The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction

Published August 2009

Paperback
$ 24.95

Description

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre, Cabin Fever celebrates two decades of writing with thirteen of the finest creative non-fiction pieces written by program participants.

Drawn primarily from the program’s second decade, this anthology includes essays on a strikingly original and global range of topics by some of the best non-fiction writers in the country: Tara Grescoe goes in search of "pure" absinthe; Jeff Warren examines the way whales think; Megan Williams takes driving lessons in Rome; Bill Reynolds writes about the joys and dangers of riding a bicycle; Charlotte Gill gives us the dirt on her eighteen years as a tree planter; John Vigna confronts his relationship with a troubled brother; Margaret Webb takes a sexy road trip to find oysters; Jaspreet Singh ruminates on life in Kashmir in the age of plutonium; Jeremy Klaszus gets to know his grandfather, a Nazi resister who is obsessed with Google Maps; Deborah Ostrovsky explores bilingualism and the "grammar of relationships" after she marries into a Quebecois family; Jonathan Garfinkel goes to Israel to find a house occupied by an Arab and a Jew; Penney Kome writes about a family friend in Chicago who helped invent the atomic bomb; and Andrew Westoll gives up love in order to hunt for a rare blue frog in Surinam.

Unique, engaging, and enriching, Cabin Fever is a testament to the literary talents of each individual contributor and a tribute to the longevity and excellence of Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program over the past twenty years.

Contributors

Moira Farr

Moira Farr is an award-winning writer and editor whose essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, THIS Magazine, Toronto Life and Chatelaine. Her first book, After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor’s Tale, was shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards. She teaches magazine writing at Carleton University.

Ian Pearson

Ian Pearson has worked as a writer, editor, and radio and television producer for the last 20 years. He was associate entertainment editor at Maclean's in the early 1980s, and ended the decade as articles editor of Toronto magazine at the Globe and Mail. After a flirtation with film as a development officer of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, he spent three seasons as books producer for CBC Radio's Morningside and later worked on CBC-TV's Gzowski in Conversation.

Marni Jackson

Marni Jackson is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Formerly the Rogers Chair for Creative Writing at Banff and senior editor at The Walrus. Jackson has a wide range of experience in the Canadian media. She is the author of the bestselling The Mother Zone: Love, Sex and Laundry in the Modern Family, as well as Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign. She lives in Toronto.

Book Details

Paperback
August 2009
6.0x9.0 in
352 pp
9780887624766