"Both playful and profound, laced with insight from thinkers across a range of disciplines, from music to history, politics to literature, high to low culture."—National Post
"strong – heartfelt, funny, rigorous, practical without ever being preachy...a book that feels like a friend."—Montreal Gazette
"a learned, clear-sighted and occasionally funny collection of essays...highly persuasive"—Winnipeg Free Press
"Thoughtful meditations on the big questions of life (and death) ... Readers will not doubt their authenticity."—The Globe and Mail
Ray Robertson's Why Not? is first among the "five Canadian books you may not necessarily hear much about," but which "should be on reading radars everywhere." —The Globe and Mail
Praise for Moody Food:
"An engrossing novel, beautifully written." —Jim Harrison
"Robertson shares a literary wildness with Thomas Wolfe." —Cleveland Free Times
"A funny, generous, touching novel by a writer of genuine gifts." —Richard Currey, author, Fatal Light and Lost Highway
"The real star of Moody Food is the writing, with its displays of sharp humor and deep love of music." —Litkicks.com
“Clever, word-drunk, and falling-down funny... Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.” —Globe and Mail
"Both playful and profound, laced with insight from thinkers across a range of disciplines, from music to history, politics to literature, high to low culture."—National Post
"strong – heartfelt, funny, rigorous, practical without ever being preachy...a book that feels like a friend."—Montreal Gazette
"a learned, clear-sighted and occasionally funny collection of essays...highly persuasive"—Winnipeg Free Press
"Thoughtful meditations on the big questions of life (and death) ... Readers will not doubt their authenticity."—The Globe and Mail
Ray Robertson's Why Not? is first among the "five Canadian books you may not necessarily hear much about," but which "should be on reading radars everywhere." —The Globe and Mail
Praise for Moody Food:
"An engrossing novel, beautifully written." —Jim Harrison
"Robertson shares a literary wildness with Thomas Wolfe." —Cleveland Free Times
"A funny, generous, touching novel by a writer of genuine gifts." —Richard Currey, author, Fatal Light and Lost Highway
"The real star of Moody Food is the writing, with its displays of sharp humor and deep love of music." —Litkicks.com
“Clever, word-drunk, and falling-down funny... Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.” —Globe and Mail
