Started to go through my smart editor’s edits for NEW DARK AGES in the @XPUNKBOOK series today but I kept getting the pizza wheel of death so I fell asleep and that’s all I did today sorry @dundurnpress
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 2, 2018
Heading out to a fancy dinner and then a party with the most amazing woman. She’s beautiful and brilliant.
Have a great evening, all – and an even better 2018!
The thing that most characterized and energized 2017 for me was a deep and visceral loathing of Trump. It made me feel 30 years younger. It was a revivifying and glorious baptism of detestation that brightened the cosmos.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 31, 2017
Until the “Donald Trump today resigned the presidency” sentence, that is.
Get this: the Ontario lobby registrar has told me they are investigating me.
Not because I didn’t register. But because I did.
Seriously. And here’s the best part: they let me know this investigation was underway right around the time that I was being critical of a certain politician.
I’m sure it’s all a great big coincidence.
Stay tuned!
My former Sun colleague Antonella Artuso got in touch with me to seek my opinion on the coming Ontario and Toronto elections. Her story is here.
And my full response to her excellent questions are here:
Provincially, the Ontario Liberals have a very unpopular leader but a very durable party brand. The Ontario PCs have a not-bad brand, but not nearly enough people know their leader. And the Ontario NDP have a very popular leader – but few folks trust their party in the role of government.
The election will come down to the campaign. Campaigns matter. And I’d say any one of the three parties has a shot at winning – if they have the best campaign.
Municipally, I know both John Tory and Doug Ford and like them both. Doug’s problem is that John is seen as a decent and honest guy – and an antidote to the crazy Ford Nation years. John’s challenge is that the Ford Nation is still a factor.
On balance, I think John will win. There’s no progressive challenger – and Doug needs one in the race to have a fighting chance.
People like John, and likeability matters in this business!
All right here.
Wow! This is a great way to end 2017.
And, I am honoured. The Globe and Mail has reviewed Recipe For Hate – and they like it! Their review:
Recipe for Hate
by Warren Kinsella
Dundurn, 304 pages, $14.99
Warren Kinsella’s many professions include author, political strategist and commentator. Is YA author now on the list? Yes and no. Kinsella’s latest book is published for teens and, in many ways, shines as a book for mature younger readers. It focuses on two teenage best friends – Kurt Blank and X – leaders in Maine’s burgeoning 1978 punk scene. When their friend is brutally murdered outside of a club, it’s the beginning of a very dark, violent time for Kurt, X and their punk crew. Portrayals of rebellious and non-conforming teens can feel reductive or contrived but Kinsella nails it without any stereotyping or embellishment. Though this authenticity will have big teen appeal, the novel is also part police procedural, part detailed history on the emergence of punk and part gritty murder mystery, all elements that skew more adult. Classification aside, it’s absorbing, jarring and raw.
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