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HOW TO MURDER YOUR CHILDREN FOR FUN + PROFIT

Submitted by basil papademos on November 22, 2011 - 10:14pm
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The following posts are about my experiences as a driver/minder while working for a low level escort agency in Toronto.

WARNING: Explicit language and situations

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Andrew Pyper and literary envy

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Submitted by Nathan Whitlock 2008 on June 17, 2008 - 9:13am

Andrew Pyper and literary envy

I’m right in the middle of reading Andrew Pyper’s newest novel, The Killing Circle, about a shadowy serial killer stalking a wannabe writer. (I will be interviewing Pyper onstage at the Toronto launch of the book in August, as part of This is Not A Reading Series)

One of the themes running through the book is that of literary envy, and I have to admit, I had my own pang of painful self-recognition when I read this bit, in which the narrator confesses why he had to stop reading The New York Times Book Review:

Basil Papademos

Basil Papademos is the author of MOUNT ROYAL: There's Nothing Harder Than Love, published in the spring of 2012 by Tightrope Books, also available as an ebook in all formats from all digital retailers. His earlier novel, The Hook of it is, was published by Emergency Press. His upcoming novel, How To **** Your Psychiatrist, will be published in the fall of 2013.

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