

Then CBC Radio’s Q covered the hubbub the book was getting. About a week later the Globe and Mail covered the novel and even gave a nod to my piece. This summer the cover image came out of hibernation (see what I did there?) when someone posted it on imgur with the click-bait title “What The Actual F*ck, Canada?!” Then I wrote this article for Hazlitt (see below). My first public reading of Bear at Say Wha?! was in January 2013. I shared the book several times at Say Wha?! shows and other events over the year and eventually podcast of of those readings in early June of 2014 – listen and enjoy it here. Sometime in 2012 a fan of the show told me to check out the novellla Bear that had been assigned to her to read at some point in her educational career (I’m hoping first year college and not high school).

My story with Marian Engel’s book Bear started in late 2012.Īs many of you know I’ve been hosting and producing a comedy show called Say Wha?! where funny people read from terrible books since 2010.
