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Katrina Onstad


Katrina Onstad is a film and culture writer for CBC Arts Online and has had her work published in the Guardian, salon.com, and the New York Times. She is also a columnist for Chatelaine and was formerly chief film critic at the National Post.

Katrina Onstad lives in Toronto.

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How Happy to Be
Written by Katrina Onstad

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-6899-7 (0-7710-6899-9)

June 5, 2007 | $21.00



How Happy to Be captures the life of a disillusioned entertainment journalist as she heads into a downward spiral of ritual substance abuse and empty punditry. Along this path of self-destruction, her past on a West Coast commune, both comic and poignant, keeps intruding. It isn’t until her indiscretions catch up...

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How Happy to Be
Written by Katrina Onstad

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-6897-3 (0-7710-6897-2)

January 3, 2006 | $24.99



Sharp, urban, witty, wise — this sparkling debut is the thinking woman’s answer to chick lit Maxime is an entertainment writer at a flailing neo-con newspaper. She’s been dining out too long, literally and figuratively, on a culture of celebrity worship and empty punditry. She seeks refuge from her better judgment...

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