The Globe and Mail - H.J. Kirchhoff Columns

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Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00 EDT

AUDITIONBy Barbara Walters, Vintage, 628 pages, $18.95Walters shares her remarkable life generously, beginning with her show-business childhood to her first years in broadcasting to her position as the most powerful woman in television.

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Fri, 15 May 2009 17:37 EDT

This week: Remembering Tiananmen, Barbara Walters and Peter Ackroyd

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Sat, 9 May 2009 00:00 EDT

QUICKENINGBy Terry Griggs, Biblioasis, 156 pages, $19.95Griggs's collection of short stories was nominated for a Governor-General's Award when it was published nearly 20 years ago, and they still display her talent and quirky sense of humour. (Griggs writes the Tuesday Essay this week at globeandmail.com/books.)

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Fri, 8 May 2009 15:13 EDT

This week: Terry Griggs, Michael Palin and more

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Sat, 2 May 2009 00:00 EDT

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIESBy Nino Ricci, Anchor Canada, 472 pages, $22 It's the 1980s in Montreal, and thirtyish Concordia University graduate student Alex Fratarcangeli tries to figure out what he wants to say in his PhD dissertation and what he wants from his distant father, his scary artist ex and the woman in his building who has multiple sclerosis. Winner of the 2008 Governor-General's Award for fiction.

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00 EDT

THE SCOREBy Richard Stark, University of Chicago Press, 213 pages, $17 THE MOURNER, by Richard Stark, UCP, 215 pages, $17 THE JUGGER, by Richard Stark, UCP, 211 pages, $17

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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:24 EDT

This week: The return of Richard Stark

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Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00 EDT

ASYLUMBy Andre Alexis, Emblem, 480 pages, $22.99Set partly in Ottawa in the 1980s and partly at a monastery in Tuscany, Asylum follows the lives of a group of men and women - a prison bureaucrat, an obsessively jealous husband, a philanderer and a woman with a dark family secret - whose stories are inextricably entwined.

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Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:22 EDT

This week: Cities, monasteries and radio stations