“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 [...]