April 4, 2006: Read an article from the Chronicle Herald. Also a CBC Editorial entitled, Mean Boy and the tradition of the academic satire
March 10, 2006: Read an article from the Globe and Mail. Improvements to this site are coming.
March 8, 2006: Read a profile that was in the Edmonton Journal and a review from Time magazine.
March 3, 2006: Mean Boy is here! Check out an audio clip on the Globe and Mail, and a regular old excerpt at Random House. Also if you get a chance go look at the cool ad on Book Ninja. It moves and stuff.
October 2005: Lynn will be instructin' fiction at the Banff Wired Writing Studio.
September 2005: In a triumphant return to the rainy city, Lynn will be reading at SFU Special Collections library. The papers of Alden Nowlan are housed there, don’t you know.
August 2005: Coady wins Canada Council mid-career award. Rebecca Belmore, Rae Bowhay, Lois Brown, Lynn Coady, Jean Pierre Gauthier, Irene Loughlin and Jane Siberry win Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, "recognizing outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council : music, theatre, dance, visual arts, media arts, writing and publishing and Inter-arts."
July-Aug 2005: Lynn, appropriately, acted as guest editor on the infamous “art fart” issue of Adbusters. That’s Adbusters #61. Much good stuff in there, some of it by first time AB contributor, Lee Henderson. Buy it. Read it. Learn Andy Warhol’s alternative recipe for cake.
July 2005: WTF? Lynn Coady has moved to Edmonton. Send earmuffs.
May 20, 2005: Words and music at Vancouver's Media Club with Ottawan instrumentalists As the Poets Affirm and Vancouver's Hinterland and Jonathan Inc. This is going to be "cool", as the kids say.
April 2005: "Wireless," a story about a drunk lady who goes to Newfoundland will appear in the April issue of The Walrus magazine.
February 28th: 'Locution' reading at Ginger 62 in Vancouver. Lynn will read from her new play, Make Me, about a writer who is a jerk and goes insane. Also readings from fine fellow dramatistists Erin MacDonald and Clara Clement, Leslie Stark. The words start flowing at 8 pm.
February 26th: Panel at Douglas College in New Westminster: "Going for the Jocular". . .hyuck, hyuck. A discussion of humour in fiction featuring Lynn "Crazy Hats" Coady, schtick-meister Kevin Chong, and Douglas College writer-in-residence Leona (Giggles) Gom.
February 2005: Check out this month's issue of Adbusters, where Lynn is now a senior editor. Please pay particular attention to the big piece in the middle on Bruce Mau's Massive Change.
January 2005 : Drop by Robert Gougeon's nifty site, The Writers Cafe for an interview with a jet-lagged Lynn about Saints of Big Harbour. This was recorded in Ottawa in 2002. Many other interviews with kick-ass Canadian authors to be found here.
June, 2004 : Check out the latest issue of Vancouver Magazine for investigative journalism at its exfoliating grittiest. Lynn Coady and Sara O'Leary risk it all—credibility, modesty, sanity—to explore the seamy, airbrush-tanned underbelly of high-end spas.
September 15, 2003 : Added a few more links under "Stuff to Read" as well as the Globe and Mail column archive.
May 20, 2003 : Victory Meat, New Fiction from Atlantic Canada is on stands now! Featuring sundry and savory delights from George Elliot Clarke, Michael Crummey, Lisa Moore, Christy Ann Conlin and more.
February, 2003 : Pretty paperback version of Saints of Big Harbour, new
from Doubleday Canada. See it here.
January 17, 2003 : Check out the latest issue of People Magazine for a review of Saints of Big Harbour.
December, 2002 : Saints of Big Harbour chosen as one of the top books of fiction in 2002 by January Magazine and The Globe and Mail.
Nov 27, 2002 : "Evidence of Human Kind", Lynn's essay on the Downtown East Side murders in Vancouver, is currently featured on Rabble.ca.
Nov 7, 2002 : Saints of Big Harbour makes it's debut in the US. Published by Houghton-Mifflin. Check back for US reviews.
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July 20, 2002 : Saints of Big Harbour released in the UK with Jonathan Cape.
Take a look
Read the Guardian review
Read the Observer review
Read an interview about Saints of Big Harbour from bookmunch.co.uk
Listen to an interview with "Front Row" on BBC 4