Traditions are all well and good — buying your Dad the same gift for Father’s Day every year is not. Break away from the yearly staples (ties, slacks, golf balls–The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf) and behold — after the jump — a selection of gifts from gadgets to Gurkhas, with which you can delight your Dad, or mention nonchalantly to your son or daughter.
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Ibi Kaslik’s The Angel Riots nominated for 2009 Trillium Award
Toronto-based fiction writer Ibi Kaslik has today received a Trillium Book Award nomination, for her second novel, The Angel Riots, released in March 2008. DRIVEN’s editorial personnel are unabashed fans of the book; it was an honour when Kaslik agreed to interview 2008 Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden for our December issue (read it here: pp38-42).
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101 Ways to Kill Your Boss
We here at DRIVEN do not want to suggest that anyone should attempt to kill their boss*.
However, if you happen to have any kind of authority, if there is anyone to whom you might refer as employee, direct report, intern, supervisee, underling, henchman, lackey, minion, servant, henchwoman or by any nickname that ends with “Friday,” you may want to consult this exhaustive tome by Graham Roumieu (Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir), so that you will be prepared when the insurrection comes.
Recommended: “Last Call” by Tim Powers
You like stories about Las Vegas, right? You know, stories about washed-out, recently-widowed, alcoholic card sharks, and the thugs who try to kill them before the one last big game? If you do, and you won’t be scared off by some deftly handled mystical mumbo jumbo along the way, you’ll get a kick out of Last Call. Read More
Recommended: Parts & Labor, “Solemn Show World”
The year’s end nears, and the best-of music lists come out of the woodwork; if DRIVEN had compiled one, Brooklyn-based alt.noise quartet Parts & Labor would have been on it. But we decided to do things a little different…
