Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall embarked on a transformative journey at seventeen, hitchhiking from Vancouver to Costa Rica. His subsequent experiences as an English teacher, house painter, and olive picker across Mexico, Italy, and Spain, alongside his work as an actor and journalist, have deeply informed his writing. Currently teaching writing at the University of Toronto, Bishop-Stall's work often delves into profound human experiences. His chronicle of living with the homeless in a vast shantytown offers a powerful exploration of resilience and community.
Mason Dubisee grapples with the disparity between his childhood dreams and his current reality as a thirty-year-old drug-addled drifter. Once filled with imaginative aspirations ranging from Jedi to rock star, he now struggles with his identity as an aspiring novelist, unable to progress beyond mere lists of ideas. This exploration of lost potential and self-discovery highlights the conflict between dreams and the harshness of adulthood.
We've all be there. One minute you're fast asleep, and the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into consciousness, mouth full of sand, a head full of pain. You're hungover. Hangovers have plagued human beings for about as long as civilization has existed (and arguably longer), so there has been plenty of time for concocting cures. But still, today, little is actually known about hangovers, and less still about how to cure them. Cutting through the rumour and the myth, 'Hungover' explores everything from polar bear swims, to saline IV drips, to the age-old hair of the dog, to let us know which ones actually work.