memoir
Crooked Teeth is a queer Syrian refugee’s reconnection “home”
June 10, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Crooked teeth is the young boy who swears he likes women. Crooked teeth are in the mouth of an officer staring back at you coldly. Crooked teeth is being the only racialized panelist discussing refugees. Crooked teeth is the wet sand on English Bay after a painful breakup. In Danny Ramadan’s newest work, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir, incisors and molars take on a whole new meaning. Right off the bat, I knew this was written brilliantly. Syrian Canadian author Ramadan’s track record with his award-winning works, The Clothesline Swing and The Foghorn…
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Marie Doduck’s memoir launches a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day
February 8, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer The Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Memoirs Program in collaboration with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, organized a book launch of Marie (Mariette) Doduck’s memoir A Childhood Unspoken. The book launch was held on January 22 at…
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Meet Angela Sterritt: SFU Library’s 2023 non-fiction writer in residence
January 18, 2023By: Anna Kazi, SFU Student SFU recently welcomed Angela Sterritt, writer and “award-winning investigative journalist” as their 2023 writer in residence. Sterritt is part of the Gitanmaax community of the Gitxsan Nation and Bell Island Newfoundland. With over a decade…
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World News Beats
September 7, 2018Written by: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer Bob meets Donald Bob Woodward has announced that he will soon produce the latest instalment of published memoirs dedicated to revealing the innermost details of U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House. According to The…
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Unpublished pages from Maria Campbell’s classic Halfbreed recovered by SFU researchers
June 25, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor SFU associate professor Deanna Reder and PhD student Alix Shield discovered a complete manuscript of Métis author Maria Campbell’s 1973 classic memoir Halfbreed, including two excised pages from all prints of the book…
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Tranny is so much more than a book about a band
November 26, 2016I love a good band memoir, and 2016 has been a great year for me in this regard. Legendary punks NOFX released their book, The Hepatitis Bathtub, earlier this year, and I read it three times (and saw the band…
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The Death of Small Creatures is a hauntingly beautiful depiction of psychological turmoil
January 4, 2016Trisha Cull will take your breath away in this jarring and revolutionary memoir. She bravely sheds light upon the raw and dark stream of consciousness of a woman struggling with multiple mental illnesses. Cull’s prose is utterly poetic, and her…
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Canada by car
January 4, 2016[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter driving 2,224 km across 10 provinces, taking 4 ferries, hitting one mink, and spending six weeks with my significant other, I can honestly say that driving across Canada is one of the best things I’ve ever done. It was…
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