Big news: gore & bacon!

Douglas & McIntyre will publish my new novel, All-Day Breakfast, in September 2012. Details here.

A quick biography

Adam Lewis Schroeder grew up in Vernon BC and completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1999. He has since traveled widely and published stories in more than a dozen journals and anthologies. In 2001 his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. His novel Empress of Asia was published by Raincoast in 2006 and Thomas Dunne in the US in 2008; a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, it was also selected by the Globe & Mail as one of the best books of the year. Douglas & McIntyre published his most recent novel, In the Fabled East, in Spring 2010; it was selected by Amazon.ca as one of the best books of the year and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Regional Writers Prize. In addition Adam is a columnist for CBC Radio One and a Creative Writing instructor at UBC Okanagan. He lives in Penticton BC with his wife and kids.

From the archives:
Sept. 28, 1972

As immortalized by CBC television, Canadians all waited on the edges of their seats the day I was born, then celebrated like crazy. Even John Diefenbaker celebrated like crazy.

Lincoln Clarkes photo, taken behind HI-Vancouver Jericho Beach in May 2009. And I seriously wear that suit every single day of my life, especially while weeding the pea patch.

Darwin's Bastards: The Movie

That's me at top right under Yann Martel--thank goodness I'm still alive at the end. Heavens!


Audio

Interview on the July 25 North By Northwest on CBC Radio One.

Profile for the April Speakeasy podcast.