Damien Cox is no stranger to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He is entering his fifth decade as a journalist, with the bulk of those years spent covering the Leafs. With REVIVAL, this becomes his third book solely focused on the team with a few others covering hockey on the whole. REVIVAL reunites Cox with Gord…
In A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, co-authors Damien Cox and Andrew Podnieks examine the shortened 2021 season – specifically the North Division – as the NHL attempted to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic. When this book initially hit shelves in April of 2022, I dismissed it as potentially being a thinly-researched cash-grab. Are we really that…
In Right, Down + Circle, author Cole Nowicki unearths the circumstances and happenstance that ultimately led to the creation of what Electronic Playground dubbed “..maybe the perfect video game” in 1999 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Born and raised in Athabasca, Alberta, Cole found his way into skateboarding at a young age through both his…
Last year, a deluge of books hit the market celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ’72 Summit Series. If you reside in Canada, but have been living under a rock with your fingers in your ears, you may not know anything about this historic event, so I’ll give you a coles notes. The Summit Series…
Following his critically acclaimed memoir about his years as a comic, BORN STANDING UP, Steve Martin released a second memoir containing stories about his time in the movie business, NUMBER ONE IS WALKING. Rather than taking the same path as his first autobiography, Martin enlisted the help of cartoonist Harry Bliss to produce a sort…
Lachlan MacKinnon’s CLOSING SYSCO examines the tumultuous life of the Sydney Steel Plant; its ups and downs and the impact it had on the surrounding community both positive and negative. Being from Sydney myself, I’ve always been curious about the Steel Plant. Like many my age, I have perhaps a basic understanding of its economic…
In FABRIC OF THE GAME, Chris Creamer and Todd Radom provide a brief overview of each NHL team as well as how they came to their name and the evolution of their on-ice look. As a self-proclaimed jersey and sports logo geek, I jumped at the chance to grab this when I discovered it. FABRIC…
As a child in the 90s, Elamin Abdelmahmoud emigrated along with his parents from Sudan to Canada. In SON OF ELSEWHERE, Elamin authors a series of essays in which he explores growing up in a new country, learning a new language and culture while also finding his own identity along the way. To be honest,…
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