JERROD EDSON

The Goon has made the shortlist for the 2011 Relit Awards...The longlist of 60-odd novels has now been whittled down to 10 and I'm stil...

"Have you ever read Fight Club ?" my brother-in-law asks. "No," I say. "But I've got it on my shelf."...

I'll be reading from The Goon at the 2011 Eden Mills Writers' Festival. This will be my second time reading there. I have also be...

The Goon June 25, 2011 by Jerrod Edson Oberon Press, p. 153, $19.95 Review by Matthew Firth The Goon tells the story of Jack Jones, a wa...

The Goon has been longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Awards in the "Best Novel" category. It really is a very long list so there's...

Yesterday I finished the first draft of a new novel called The Moon is Real ...It's kind of a sequel to The Dirty Milkman where it r...

Sue White has written her first novel, The Year Mrs. Montague Cried , and I've just started reading it and can't put it down. Dubbed...

"A writer who can both write and teach should be able to do both. Many competent writers have proved it could be done. I could not do...

There have been a few books I've read that have had a big influence on my writing; books that are so good that by the time I finish them...

Finding the words Published Thursday May 26th, 2011 In The Goon, an inarticulate hockey player gains his voice by Charles Mandel H...

Catherine Barkley, the nurse who sweeps Lieutenant Frederick Henry off his feet in Hemingway's masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms , is clea...

My wife recently bought me Wine & War by Don and Petie Kladstrup and I read it over the weekend. It's the story of the German occup...