About the Author
Terry Watada
Terry Watada is a Toronto poet, novelist, playwright and essayist, and historian, musician and composer, with numerous publications to his credit. Five of his plays have received mainstage production. He contributes a monthly column to The Bulletin, a national Japanese Canadian community paper. For his writing, music and community volunteerism, he was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. His published works include The Sword, the Medal and the Rosary (manga, 2013); Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (novel, 2007), Obon: the Festival of the Dead (poetry, 2006); Ten Thousand Views of Rain (poetry, 2001); A Thousand Homes (poetry, 1995); and The TBC: the Toronto Buddhist Church, 1995 – 2010 (2010).
Suffering a bit of that summertime sadness? Turn those frowns upside down with this bluesy cover collage that we're channeling big pool party energy with. Grab your favourite pair of sunnies and any one of these rad reads to brighten your day and ramp up your summer vibes.
A Japanese Edo-period game inspires multigenre writer and artist Terry Watada's featured collection, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Mawenzi House). Game players light one hundred candles, snuffing out one at a time after telling a ghost story. The hoped result was that a being ... Read more
We thought Rhonda Douglas' Welcome to the Circus (launching this week in Toronto and Calgary) was an appropriate feature title for this week's This Week in Book Events, if only because it evokes:
Vancouver Confidential dives into the raw urban culture of a port city in the mid-twentieth century. These were the years when Hastings and Main was still a dynamic commercial and entertainment hub, when streetcars thrummed through the city, and when "theatre" meant vaudeville ... Read more
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