Kevin Morby

  • A reading of the Prologue from Klondikers

    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.

  • Klondikers Virtual Launch

    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 October 5 at 7 pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87220179761

  • A Klondikers pic a day

    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.

  • Puck Possession Archives

    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) Hockey’s Rough and Rowdy Ways (06/18/2021) Shake It Off: Playing Hurt Is Part of Hockey’s DNA (05/17/2021) Where Puck-Moving Defencemen Really Come From (04/16/2021) The Childhood Friends Who Changed Hockey (03/24/2021) “Bad Joe” Hall (02/18/2021)

  • Advanced Praise (aka Blurbs)

    Advanced Praise (aka Blurbs) I feel extremely fortunate to have received these two flattering blurbs for Klondikers. Here’s one from The Athletic’s James Mirtle: • “Meticulously researched and endlessly fascinating, Klondikers offers a remarkable portrait of the often-overlooked story of hockey’s beginnings in Canada’s North. Falconer has done it again.” And here’s another from The Globe and Mail‘s Cathal Kelly: • “Somewhere between John Huston and Michael Lewis, this frontier romp through hockey’s earliest days is a delight. We are defined in part by the games they play, which means Tim Falconer is teaching us our own history. If that…

  • Puck Possession newsletter

    Puck Possession newsletter Since my next book — Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey — will be out in October, I’ve started a newsletter. Called Puck Possession, it’s about the roots of our love for hockey. Delivered to your mailbox roughly once a month. Please sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/d6a47022dd43/sign-up-for-the-puck-possession-newsletter

  • My Top Tunes (and Albums) of 2020

    My Top Tunes (and Albums) of 2020 Living in a pandemic has obviously been a drag, but I prefer to focus on the year’s good things. One of the advantages of being old is that the idea of staying home at night doesn’t seem so tragic, a development I never thought possible. With no hockey to play, I cycled and managed to ride over 7,000 km, a total I never thought possible. And with more time and fewer distractions, I finished the first draft of my book; I even handed it in four days early, an accomplishment I never thought…

  • My Favourite Music of 2019

    My Favourite Music of 2019 I’m back. A year older, a year less relevant. But people seem to want me to do this so, even if it’s just for a laugh, here is my round-up of the music I liked most in 2019. Once again, I’ve created a Spotify playlist of selected songs for your convenience. Big Thief made my 2017 list with Capacity and the band’s debut, Masterpiece, would be on my 2016 list if I were to do it again (though I always thought the names of those first two albums should have been reversed). This year, the band released two…

  • Some Music I Loved in 2018

    While I’m sure my musical diet becomes less and less relevant with each passing year, irrelevancy never stopped me before. So here goes. (And if you want to listen while you read, here’s a Spotify playlist.) I’m going to start with Boygenius, the EP that represents the theme of much of the music I listened to the most this year: music made by women. Boygenius is the name Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridges gave their supergroup collaboration. At just six songs, this EP definitely made me want more and “Bite the Hand” might have been favourite song of…

  • The Music I Loved in 2017

      The Music I Loved in 2017 The older I get, the harder it is for me to keep up with all the new music that comes out. Both parts of that sentence are hard for me to admit. Fortunately, I’m practiced at denial. So, with that caveat, here’s a look back at my year in music listening. My favourite album of 2017 was The War on Drug’s A Deeper Understanding. Although it’s not as good as the band’s Lost in the Dream, my top record of 2014 and likely my album of the decade, it features “Thinking of a Place,”…