One Damn Thing After Another!

One Damn Thing After Another! is a memoir by Canadian author Hugh Garner published in 1973.

Commentary

Kerry Clare writes:

In One Damned Thing After Another, the memoir published six years before he died, Garner describes Jarvis Street as mirroring Toronto’s social stratification, “getting lower each block in both altitude and social position” and housing the city’s most troubled inhabitants, especially “the whores, junkies and criminals who had made Jarvis and Dundas streets their corner.” That Garner—who grew up mere blocks from skid row and returned regularly to it in his writing—could describe the district so vividly in novels like Waste No Tears, reminds readers that Jarvis and Dundas was his corner, too.

Source: Waste No Tears: Hugh Garner Exposes the Underside of Toronto the Good

Eric McMillan writes:

His most enjoyable reading for me from his late years is One Damn Thing After Another! (1973), a memoir of a non-conformist writer's life, stitched together from previously published journalism and new observations—from the author of seventeen books, a hundred stories, four hundred magazine articles and essays, ten television dramas, numerous radio dramas and a stage play.

Source: The Tough Guy of Canadian Letters

See also

• Cabbagetown - novel by Hugh Garner

External links

• Hugh Grant @ Wikipedia