Ian Ferguson interviews Mark Leiren Young — ‘TREES AND US’ PODCAST @ THE TYEE Mark Leiren-Young has been talking about trees for The Tyee’s Trees and Us Series since September, 2007 — interviewing a mix of people about the fate of our forests. The inspiration for this podcast series was Leiren-Young’s award-winning feature film, The Green [...]
BY JOHN THRELFALL — MONDAY MAG Mark Leiren-Young’s rookie-reporter recollections make for great reading He’s an acclaimed journalist, playwright and screenwriter who has penned for the likes of Time, Macleans and the Utne Reader—hell, he even got his start as a freelancer here at Monday—but now Mark Leiren-Young is going back to where he cut [...]
“Once a city boy has gone country, does he ever go back again? Mark Leiren-Young hasn’t. Sure he spends time in the city, but when we caught up with the hardworking screenwriter, comedian, playwright and freelancer (who often writes for The Tyee) to talk about his new comic memoir Never Shoot a Stampede Queen — [...]
“Never Shoot a Stampede Queen could serve as the one-book answer to everything would-be journos ever ask – or need to know – about what it’s like to be a real reporter. (Short answer: hilarious when it’s not astounding, frustrating, or terrifying.) Not that Mark Leiren-Young, a journalist turned comedian, playwright, TV-scriptwriter, and author intended [...]
Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is a terrific debut: funny, moving and profound. You will laugh out loud. —Will Ferguson, author ——– Mark Leiren-Young has earned an enviable reputation as Canadian comic and storyteller, but here he expands his literary horizon. His portrait of small-town BC is a mixture of Leacock (the wry humour and [...]
“Twenty-two years ago, Mark Leiren-Young was a new grad out of UVic’s theatre and creative writing departments and was desperate enough for work that he accepted a job as a reporter at the Williams Lake Tribune. Leiren-Young, a city slicker in a small town, found trouble from the moment he entered Williams Lake, B.C. Arriving [...]
By Bill Phillips – Prince George Free Press Published: December 02, 2008 4:00 PM For the record, I worked at the Williams Lake Tribune after Mark Leiren-Young did. I’m not the wacko editor or overly-protective senior reporter he talks about in his new book Never Shoot a Stampede Queen – A Rookie Reporter in the [...]
“The book itself is city-boy-meets-really-rural-life and the hilarity that ensues. But it’s more than that, due to Leiren-Young’s wry commentary, amusing observations and, most importantly, his success at not dismissing the Cariboo folk as yokels existing for his amusement. True, the fish-out-of-water plot drives this tale, and the characters Leiren-Young encounters are certainly memorable, but [...]
BY LINDA RICHARDS — JANUARY MAGAZINE If you live in Vancouver, it’s next to impossible that you don’t know Mark Leiren-Young’s name. For one thing, it’s a distinctive double-barreled moniker: you remember it once you’ve seen it. Especially since, again if you live in that city and you happen to read, you’ll have seen it [...]
Author Snapshot: Mark Leiren-Young (By Linda L. Richards) If you live in Vancouver, it’s next to impossible that you don’t know Mark Leiren-Young’s name. For one thing, it’s a distinctive double-barreled moniker: you remember it once you’ve seen it. Especially since, again if you live in that city and you happen to read, you’ll have [...]
FROM ONE BIG UMBRELLA Welcome to our second Umbrella Talk with Canadian playwright Mark Leiren-Young. In the past five years, we’ve been pursuing to produce Mark’s extraordinary play Shylock, which deals with the questions surrounding the perceived anti-semetic themes in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. This week, Mark talks to us here on our blog. He tells us what [...]
BY DEANNE BEATTIE — THE PEAK The Green Chain opened at the Fifth Avenue theatre on March 6. Ask any Canadian tourist what strikes them most about our vast country, and elicit the answer, “The trees. My god, the trees.” They’re as vital to our survival as the air we breathe; in fact they’re as [...]