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Hodgins Jack
The Master of Happy Endings
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The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood. Life in L.A. is far removed from his isolated life in rural B.C., and soon Thorstad finds himself caught up in the drama of his young student’s life, and the return of an old flame. Set amidst the fleshpots, sound-stages and dining rooms of L.A., this engaging novel of lives and loves lost and found also gestures to the courage one needs in the face of the vulnerabilities of older age that all too soon beset us.
Spit Delaney's Island
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Fiction. Jack Hodgins' first book, published originally in 1976, is once again in print—in a new edition. Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award, SPIT DELANEY'S ISLAND, a collection of short stories, put Vancouver Island on the map as a Canadian literary locale and set Hodgins off on his literary career. Often compared to Faulkner's fiction of the deep South, Hodgins' stories develop through people who seem to live at the edge of the world, always in danger of falling off that edge. There is Spit himself, the keeper of a steam locomotive that has been exiled to Ottawa for display; there are loggers, country wives, bookstore owners, and people who "live up the mountain" in isolated communes.
Innocent Cities
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Set in Victoria, B.C., in 1881, Innocent Cities brilliantly weaves together the lives and lies of an entire community. Logan Sumner is a young widower and architect who dreams of transforming the tiny port city of Victoria into one of the great cities of the world. When he’s not chiseling a record of his life onto his tombstone, Sumner awkwardly courts the daughter of James Horncastle, an inveterate gambler and the swaggering proprietor of The Great Blue Heron Hotel. Their lives – and those of the bizarre group of guests who frequent the hotel – are changed forever when a mysterious widow from Australia arrives in Victoria with startling revelations from her past. Rich with intrigue, warm humour, and a memorable cast of characters, Innocent Cities is a compelling tale from one of Canada’s finest writers.
A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition
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This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them. The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another – on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character – how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure – “The Architecture of Story”; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising – an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story – where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? – Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at “the mysterious business of writing fiction.” As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers’ summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master. With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you be atter writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader.
Distance
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A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms – with Sonny’s help. But before facing the gravity of what’s ahead, the two embark on a journey to Australia, in search of a woman from their past, and over the course of the next few months their adventures will reveal difficult truths about fathers and sons, about families, about how we live and how we die – and about the good and bad things that distance can sometimes provide. Wise and irreverent, deeply moving, at times comic, and with vivid settings ranging from the frozen banks of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal to the lushness of Vancouver Island, from the bustle of downtown Sydney to the sun-baked desolation of the Queensland outback, Distance is Jack Hodgins’s most rewarding novel to date. From the Hardcover edition.
The Macken Charm
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It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is eager to leave rural Vancouver Island – and his family – for university, the events of Glory’s funeral will not make it easy. Over the course of a single day, the rambunctious Macken clan gathers at the site of the burned-down seaside hotel that was once the family base to mourn and remember the glamorous city girl who married the wildest Macken of all but never quite adapted to their country ways. By the time the sun comes up on the following day, Rusty may have participated in something of a miracle. At the very least, he will have been forced to confront the uneasy secrets of his own heart. Compassionate, hilarious, and wise, The Macken Charm brilliantly captures the joys, the frustrations, and the rich human drama of family life.
Hodgins Jack News
Thursday Finales: 'Bones,' plus 'The Office' and '30 Rock' - HitFix
HitFix, CA - May 21, 5754
HitFixThursday Finales: 'Bones,' plus 'The Office' and '30 Rock'As Hodgins' voiceover observed, "You see two people, you think 'They belong together' and nothing happens." Now it can happen! If viewers don't stage an uprising, I reckon that next season we're due for hallucinatory sex between Liz and Jack on "30
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Perry's 3-on-3 results - Sarnia Observer
Sarnia Observer, Canada - May 21, 329
Perry's 3-on-3 resultsRyan Lyle and Blake Hays scored for Stokes and Brent Blais and Mitch Hodgins scored for the Co-operators. Hazlitt/Steeves/Harris came back in game 5 to beat GC Painting 9-3. Graeme Brunet scored a hat trick and Austin Hewton had 2 for H/S/H. The
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TELEVISION: ABC Picks Up Eastwick; Fox Gives Bones Two-Year Extension! - Eclipse Magazine
Eclipse Magazine, CA - May 21, 9629
TELEVISION: ABC Picks Up Eastwick; Fox Gives Bones Two-Year Extension!Since that means the crackling chemistry between Emily Deschanel [Dr. Temperance Brennan] and David Boreanaz [Special Agent Seeley Booth] – not to mention TJ Thyne [Jack Hodgins] and Michaela Conlin [Angela Montenegro] – will be entertaining us for two
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Episode Title: (BON-420) "The End in the Beginning" - The Futon Critic
The Futon Critic, CA - May 14, 2009
Episode Title: (BON-420) "The End in the Beginning"(BON-420) (TV-14 D, L, S, V) Cast: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan; David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth; TJ Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins; Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro; Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille "Cam" Saroyan; John Francis BONES "The End in the Beginning" Season 4 Episode 26
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JUST AMONG FRIENDS - Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat
Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS - May 07, 2009
JUST AMONG FRIENDSMany thanks to the reunion planning committee Sonny Welsh, Claudia Adkins Sims, Willie Mae Richie Lott, Walter "Bunts" Prince, Jane Chaney Hodgins and Dawn Mars. Attending the reunion were Claudia Adkins Sims of Brandon; Ramona Burkes Cumberland of
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