Atlantic Books Today “Cod Collapse” Review
ABT features a review by fisheries scientist Jeffrey A. Hutchings of my book, Cod Collapse.
Read More Atlantic Books Today “Cod Collapse” ReviewWriter, Artist, Newfoundlander
ABT features a review by fisheries scientist Jeffrey A. Hutchings of my book, Cod Collapse.
Read More Atlantic Books Today “Cod Collapse” ReviewThanks to Canadian Geographic for running an excerpt of my book
Read More Canadian Geographic features excerpt of “Cod Collapse”Details of Fall 2019 Book Tour for “Cod Collapse”
Read More Fall Book Tour 2019A review of Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)
Read More Book Review: Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)Features quotes from select samples of my writing. Current keepsakes come from my 2018-19 works.
Read More Keepsake GalleryWater is a book about our global freshwater supply and its quality. It’s a policy-relevant and science-rich book but is neither a policy book nor an academic book. Like its subject matter, this book is meant for everyone. Author Mark de Villiers writes: “Water is not ‘ours’ or ‘theirs,’ but the planet’s. We use water, and […]
Read More Book Review: Marq de Villiers’ Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (2003)The Danger Tree artfully combines family memoir and historical nonfiction. Just as author, David Macfarlane, introduces readers to his maternal family, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, he establishes the major events of the early twentieth century. The event Macfarlane most prominently features is the First World War. For the Goodyears, WWI means “three dead sons paraded […]
Read More Book Review: David Macfarlane’s The Danger Tree (2014)My father told me about the one-room variety school he and my uncles attended in Little Bay East, Newfoundland. The community didn’t have an adequate number of students to accommodate separate classes. So, the school children up to grade five shared their own classroom, while the preteens and teens from grade six onwards shared their […]
Read More Dory StoriesThe spring 2018 issue of Maisonneuve magazine includes my story called “Letters from Pop.” In this reported feature, I explore a legacy of low adult literacy in my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). There, people traditionally learned their skills on the land and the sea more so than in the formal classroom. For […]
Read More IF POP COULD READ THIS NOW: LITERACY LESSONS FOR NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORSix men boarded the 72-foot fishing vessel the Andrea Gail intended for a late season fishing trip that would end catastrophically. In late October 1991, aware that a storm was brewing, the captain and crew decided to take their swordfish catch and head home from the Grand Banks to Gloucester, Massachusetts. The mother of all […]
Read More Recounting a Shipwreck No one Survived to Tell