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Reports on the effort of British Columbia authors Paul and Audrey Grescoe to edit a collection of Canadian letters that express love in all its guises, which will appear in their book in 2004. List of other book of the Grescoes with the same concept.

Focuses on Mordecai Richler, a Canadian writer. Activities which will celebrate the life of Richler; Discovery of the writing of Richler by Canadians; Association of this magazine with Richler; Mention of his book 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.'

Reports that EBSCO Canada has formed the Canadian Literary Centre. Combination of the contents of three literary reference series with book reviews, essays, works of literary criticism, author biographies, and current periodical articles; Author information which is available on the database; Use of the reference series 'The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors,' 'Canadian Writers and Their Works,' and the 'Canadian Fiction Series.'

Presents an article from this magazine from November 7, 1977, which interviewed W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Dance Me Outside.' His desire to write about Indians and use of an Indian narrator; Idea that his book 'Shoeless Joe' will secure his place in Canadian literature.

Presents an article from this magazine from November 7, 1977, which interviewed W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Dance Me Outside.' His desire to write about Indians and use of an Indian narrator; Idea that his book 'Shoeless Joe' will secure his place in Canadian literature.

Presents an article from this magazine from November 7, 1977, which interviewed W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Dance Me Outside.' His desire to write about Indians and use of an Indian narrator; Idea that his book 'Shoeless Joe' will secure his place in Canadian literature.

Offers the author's opinion of the arts and culture in Canada. How Canadians love summer festivals, where they give culture attention; Ideas that more winter festivals would give them culture in the non-summer months; The formality of dressing for the theater or symphony; Lack of serious arts in the summer; Idea that Canadian literature and Canada's film industry are dull; How Canadians do not know what culture is available to them year-round.

Discusses the rising diversity of voices in Canadian writing. List of well-known names in Canadian writing; Argument of Writers' Union of Canada members on writing out of one's direct experience; Barbara Gowdy's review of the book `White Buick,' by Greg Hollingshead.

Presents an essay on writing adapted from the author's acceptance speech for the 1997 National Arts Club Medal for Literature. Her early influences; How growing up in Canada affected her writing career; Her thoughts on the difference between writing poetry and writing fiction; The writer's role in society; Comments on the publishing industry in the 1990s.

Notes the book `No Previous Experience,' by Elspeth Cameron. Cameron, an English professor at the University of Toronto in Ontario, and an award-winning biographer; The personal details of her life that Cameron reveals in her book, including how she fell in love with a woman, Janice Dickin. INSETS: Best-sellers.;All about flying saucers..

Presents a list of the best 24 Canadian books of 1996, unranked, selected by the entertainment editors of `Maclean's' magazine. Twelve titles in each category of fiction and non-fiction; Titles including `I Have Lived Here Since the World Began,' by Arthur Ray; `Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power,' by Edward Greenspon and Anthony Wilson-Smith; `Alias Grace,' by Margaret Atwood; `The Englishman's Boy,' by Guy Vanderhaeghe; Other titles.

Examines the life and reports the death of Robertson Davies who was the foremost of half a dozen outstanding Canadian writers. Davies expressing the notion that Canadians are `a nation of losers'; Davies' background as a Canadian reporter; His taste for the theater; His role as a teacher; His eleventh novel, `The Cunning Man,' published in April 1995 to an enthusiastic review in `The Economist.'