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Author of That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care; Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile; Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream. Co-author, with popular parenting expert Alex Russell, of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement.

My Favourite Music of 2022

My Favourite Music of 2022

By Tim on December 31, 2022

My Favourite Music of 2022 Apparently, I need a deadline. On the other hand, waiting until the last minute gives me more listening time. Although I don’t pretend this is the best music of 2022, it is my favourite music of the year (as of right now). For whatever that’s worth. But if you find […]

Posted in music | Tagged 2022, Alvvays, Angel Olsen, Beth orton, Big Thief, Elvis Costello, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mitski, music, Music Buddy, Orville Peck, Plains, Sadies, Soccer Mommy, Wet Leg, Wilco

Yukon Readings

Yukon Readings

By Tim on April 23, 2022

Yukon Readings I will be doing a reading in support of Klondikers at the Whitehorse Public Library on May 5 and another event–with my friend Rick Taylor, author of Rivers Run through Us: A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America–in Dawson City on May 11. The latter will be at the […]

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers, Yukon | Tagged Dawson City, Klondikers, Whitehorse, Yukon

My Favourite Music of 2021

My Favourite Music of 2021

By Tim on December 30, 2021

My Favourite Music of 2021 Some years, I have a hard time picking a favourite album. Not this year. Cassandra Jenkins’s An Overview on Phenomenal Nature came out in February and has been in heavy rotation ever since. She creates such a mood with these intimate and atmospheric songs and my love for this album hasn’t waned […]

Posted in music | Tagged 2021, Arlo Parks, Cassandra Jenkins, Dry Cleaning, Julien Baker, Justin Townes Earle, Lucy Dacus, music, Steve Earle, Still Corners, Sun June, The Hold Steady, The War on Drugs, The Weather Station | 2 Responses

On the List

By Tim on December 27, 2021

On the List December is the time for year-end book lists and some of them included Klondikers: • The Globe 100, the Globe and Mail’s list of “The books we loved in 2021”: “Falconer tells the riveting tale of a bunch of guys who travelled from the Yukon to Ottawa because they just wanted to play hockey. The frozen continent […]

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers | Tagged cbc, Globe 100, Globe and Mail, Klondikers

On Picking the Five Best Hockey Books

On Picking the Five Best Hockey Books

By Tim on December 26, 2021

On Picking the Five Best Hockey Books A new book website called Shepherd asked me to pick the top five hockey books. That was a hard assignment. I eventually narrowed it down to six and, in the end, I reluctantly dropped George Plimpton’s Open Net, a book I love. Anyway, here’s my list of the five best […]

Posted in books, hockey | Tagged Gross Misconduct, hockey books, Hockey Dreams, Riding on the Roar of the Crowd, The Game, Wayne Gretzky's Ghost

Watch the virtual launch of Klondikers

By Tim on October 14, 2021

Watch the virtual launch of Klondikers The virtual launch of Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey featured Tim Falconer and Ian Brown in conversation. You can watch it here:

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers, Yukon | Tagged Dawson City, hockey, Ian Brown, Klondikers, Stanley Cup

A reading of the Prologue from Klondikers

By Tim on October 6, 2021

A reading of the Prologue from Klondikers Get a sense of Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey with this video of me reading the Prologue.

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers, Yukon | Tagged Dawson City, hockey, Klondikers, Stanley Cup

Klondikers Virtual Launch

Klondikers Virtual Launch

By Tim on September 14, 2021

To be honest, launching a book on Zoom wouldn’t be my first choice. I’d love to throw a big bash in a bar. But on the positive side, people from all over will be able to join me in celebrating Klondikers. For more information, here’s a Facebook event page. And here’s the Zoom link for […]

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers | Tagged Ian Brown, Klondikers, Virtual Launch

A Klondikers pic a day

A Klondikers pic a day

By Tim on September 11, 2021

A Klondikers pic a day Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey includes no photographs so I am posting a pic a day on Facebook, Twitter (@timfalconer) and Instagram (@thetimoji) to introduce some of the characters, places and events in the book.

Posted in books, hockey, Klondikers | Tagged hockey, Klondikers

Puck Possession Archives

Puck Possession Archives

By Tim on August 13, 2021

Puck Possession Archives Catch up on past editions of the Puck Possession newsletter: Hoodoo Voodoo (12/21/2021) Frank McGee Was the Original Superstar, but Hockey Had Many Early Stars (11/18/2021) Comparing “One-Eyed” Frank McGee (10/16.2021) Special Edition: Virtual Launch Invitation (10/04/2021) Hockey’s Complicated Villain (09/15/2021) Blame the Ref (08/13/2021) P.D. Ross and the Stanley Cup (07/19/2021) […]

Posted in hockey, Klondikers | Tagged Klondikers, Puck Possession

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