It seems appropriate that Russell Wangersky was published in the bestselling anthology What I Meant to Say: 25 Essays on the Private Lives of Men. His latest short-story collection, named this past week to the long-list for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, could well have been entitled What I Didn't (or Couldn't) Say: 17 Stories of the Private Losses (or Screw-ups) of Men. Read more
The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 20, 2006
As editor-in-chief of The St. John's Telegram, Russell Wangersky writes a twice-weekly column on what he calls the "seen and unseen" aspects of the news. Read more
The Globe and Mail Top 100 list of 2006 Saturday, November 23, 2006
While the 17 stories in The Hour of Bad Decisions provide a literary tour of the Atlantic Coast, Wangersky is at his best when describing smaller landscapes. Read more
St. John's Telegram Saturday, May 13, 2006
The Hour of Bad Decisions, a short-story collection, is Russell Wangersky's debut as a fiction writer, and it is superb. The writing is accomplished, even haunting. Read more
Toronto Star Sunday, April 30, 2006
If Russell Wangersky has any pull, 2 a.m. is officially the hour of bad decisions. You late-night lurkers know it well. It's that dreadful time when the walls have ears, the wind whips up your imagination and you know you're on the verge of either a big breakthrough or a manic mistake. Read more
Winnipeg Free Press Review Sunday, May 28th, 2006
RAGING fires, screaming women and knife-wielding men are among the lingering images found in the debut short fiction collection of Newfoundland writer Russell Wangersky. Read more
Women's Post August 2006
I was aware of Russell Wangersky's literary CV when I began his collection of short stories: I knew he'd received several National Magazine Awards for his articles in the St. John's Telegram, where he serves as editor-in-chief. I also knew that he'd won three Creative Non-fiction contests in prestigious literary journals. Read more
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