When you write for newspapers, you try for National Newspaper Awards. As print journalism fades into poverty, obscurity and indifference, I reprint here some book reviews that won me a Critical Writing award in 1995, some reviews that didn’t win me anything in 1996, a feature on my high school reunion that won me a 1997 NNA and the undying hatred of my hometown, which actually ran an editorial opposing my continued existence on the planet, and a piece on feminism that is just as depressing today as it was when I wrote it in 1998.  I have also included some columns I wrote for the Globe and Mail.

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