Pauper Envy

A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover From Great Success by Tracy Kidder Random House 2016, 288 pages Book Review by David Hayes October 1, 2016 The National Post The noted literary journalist Tracy Kidder has made a career out of documenting the lives of other, often ordinary, people rather than himself. […]

Black and Whyte and Read All Over

With close to 300,000 readers across the country, the loud, opinionated, irreverent National Post has outperformed all expectations. But is there enough substance underneath all that style to sustain its success? By David Hayes, Toronto Life, December 1999 SHORTLY AFTER 11 A.M. on a Friday in July, 15 editors seat themselves around a table in […]