Are These Canada’s Best Books Of 2014?

“In a wide-ranging list that culls from across Canadian regions, the fiction finalists include Michael Crummey, who was expected to be among the major prize winners this fall for his latest novel, Sweetland, but failed to place on the Giller and Writers’ Trust lists; Thomas King for The Back of the Turtle; and Claire Holden Rothman for My October.”

Actress Marian Seldes, 86

“Tall, angular and dark-haired, with a commanding, patrician voice and liquid gestures, Ms. Seldes could dominate any scene – so much so that she was sometimes criticized for overacting. She shrugged at that: She knew very well that she cut a distinctive figure. … She also had it right when she described herself as a theatrical workaholic; she was seldom offstage.”