Easy to Like

Nominated for the BMO Winterset Award and the ReLit Award

From award-winning author Edward Riche comes a savagely funny satire about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. Disillusioned by his floundering Los Angeles existence — his writing career is at a low, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the Feds, and his son, a former child star, is in prison — Elliot does what any self-respecting wino would do: escape to France.

But fate has other things in store. Stranded in Canada by an expired passport, he is encouraged to remain there due to his bit part in a growing Hollywood scandal. Deciding that Toronto may just be the perfect city in which to lay low, Elliot kills time by bluffing his way to the top of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

From the deranged flakiness of Los Angeles cults to the bureaucratic rituals of Canadian culturecrats, Easy to Like is a brilliant satire about making and breaking public taste from one of our most exciting, unapologetic literary talents.