“An apology to the many customers we had to turn away last weekend, and to those whose telephone orders we had to decline. And the following April, a sample of the writer’s work appeared in an ad the Daily Colonist. 1, 1967, the writer opened Caesar’s Pizza in the former Mario’s location. So the location was taken over by an aspiring writer who had been planning to open an Italian eatery in the University Heights shopping centre in Saanich. He had hired a carpenter to do some work at the restaurant, there was a dispute over the bill and Fata ended up on the sidewalk, with his blood splattered over his white shirt.įata’s brother, Elio, tried to keep the business going for a few months, but couldn’t make it work. You have to wonder if the killing of Mario Fata on Douglas Street in 1967 changed the course of literary history.įata was just 18, and already running Mario’s Pizza Palace, near the corner of Douglas and Caledonia Avenue. His contribution to will endure.”Īssisted deaths became legal in Canada in June.Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Not a week has passed in the last 22 years without receiving a note of appreciation for Bill’s stories. His fiction has made people laugh, cry and think for decades and will do so for decades to come. He was a dedicated storyteller, performer, curmudgeon, an irascible and difficult man. “Bill persuaded me to become a literary agent in 1994 and to represent his work. They were incredibly kind and supportive over the years,” Swayze said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Bill Kinsella and his wife Ann Knight were my first friends when I moved to White Rock in 1984. The author frequently published short stories and novels on the topic of baseball during the course of his writing career, including 1986’s Iowa Baseball Confederacy and 1991’s Box Socials. Kinsella published almost 30 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry and won the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honors. Key turns of phrases in his book -”If you build it, they will come” and “Go the distance” - have taken their place in literature’s lexicon.

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