Award-winning Toronto writer and musician Paul Quarrington has died of lung cancer at age 56. Quarrington died Thursday morning at his home in Toronto, surrounded by friends and family, according to a ...

In the celebrated comic novel King Leary, the titular character, looking back on his storied hockey career from the dreary confines of a nursing home, says that he once wanted his gravestone to read ...

I always thought I'd grow old with Paul Quarrington. For many years my wife and I have fantasized about buying a villa or a village in some southern clime where we'd gather all our friends in our ...

The above description is Margaret Atwood's from Saturday's tribute to Paul Quarrington at IFOA. When Atwood had put on a PEN benefit some years ago, she found out only on the night of the event that ...

In the spring of 2009, Paul Quarrington received devastating news. He'd been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Doctors told him he might only have a year to live. It's the kind of shocking ...

At Tuesday night's tribute to the late Paul Quarrington, his friend and fellow author/musician, Dave Bidini, announced the creation of a new prize in Quarrington's honour. The Paul Quarrington ...

Paul Quarrington, one of Canada’s most talented multi-disciplinary artists, has died.The Leslieville-based musician and writer was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in May.The 56-year-old Don Mills ...

A lot of us imagine what it would be like to attend our own funeral. Paul Quarrington, diagnosed earlier this year with terminal lung cancer, can now add that unlikely experience to his long list of ...

When Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last May, he got to work on what probably felt like the most important thing he’d do: writing about his life in music. Note the word “in ...

Fans of Paul Quarrington who were expecting something either momentous or maudlin from his final book should remember one thing: this is Paul Quarrington we’re talking about. That’s clearly not the ...

Random House Canada, 247 pp, $34.95, hardcover. Compared to fuzzy fetishists or baseball statisticians, storm chasers seem almost normal: their kick is to place themselves in the middle of the ...