The Maclean’s Bestsellers List: week of Nov. 1
Bruce Springsteen is still on fire in our non-fiction list, as Governor-General Award winner Madeleine Thien shoots to the top in fiction
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Books
Anthony Bourdain: ’Look, it’s not normal, what I do.’
The renegade culinary writer on fatherhood, cooking’s bad-boy culture, Canada’s restaurant scene, and his new cookbook
Rogers Writers’ Trust: Spotlight on Katherena Vermette
We asked everyone shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize: Is there a non-contemporary author whose influence you feel in your own work?
A beguiling tale about alienation
Hal Niedzviecki takes the approach of a Victorian serial novelist
How a hippie helped eradicate smallpox
Larry Brilliant, a world-renowned physician, epidemiologist and public-health crusader, tells his story
Rogers Writers’ Trust: Spotlight on winner Yasuko Thanh
Yasuko Thanh won the 2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Read an excerpt and short essay from her here
Excerpt: Read Mona Awad’s ’13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl’
In this Giller-shortlisted book, two high-schoolers struggle to navigate the male gaze that, they realize, dominates their world
Mona Awad: ‘I felt like quitting many times’
Mona Awad on finding poetic inspiration, scribbling notes—and the long, hard process of writing her book
Charles Bronfman on the burdens of being a Bronfman
A clear, candid and engaging memoir from the whisky magnate
Ami McKay conjures witches
The Witches of New York is low on peril and high on plodding narrative