Q&A with Lorraine O’Donnell Williams, author of Memories of the Beach

Tell us about your book.
In the Dirty Thirties, Toronto’s Beach community has somehow managed to distance itself from the rest of the city, and even from the world. This quirky and enchanted community provided a protective base of beauty and calm during the madness about to be unleashed by World War II. And in the [...]

Game Over, or How a Trivia Master Got Schooled by The Big Book of Canadian Trivia

I don’t want to boast or anything, but I’m good at trivia. Like, REALLY good.

Every summer, myself and a group of university pals  go up to my old roommate Natalie ”Ruby” Rubino’s cottage for a weekend of fun: food, drinking, swimming, more food and drinking, and games (this particular group of friends, which includes myself, my sister Kris, [...]