Interviews, Media and Appearances for The Unfinished Dollhouse

 

Acknowledgments

The Unfinished Dollhouse selected one of Globe 100 Best Books of the Year in 2017 https://tinyurl.com/yax7wptw

Featured at Toronto International Festival of Authors - Interview with Anne Hines at HarbourfrontTO, September 23, 2017.

http://bit.ly/2wv9RST 

Selected by Quill and Quire for its Spring Preview 2017: Non-Fiction.

https://tinyurl.com/qqp3gm8

Selected by now.toronto.ca: “The books you have to read in 2017”, January 5, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/wxk9a3k

Selected by now.toronto.ca: “Six queer books to read in summer 2017”, June 16, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/tvph5mt

Selected by The 49th Shelf as one of its “next great Canadian reads”.

https://tinyurl.com/sl8jrym 

Selected by The 49th Shelf as one of “16 Books for Pride Month”.

https://tinyurl.com/qq84lds

 

Reviews

“The people they were destined to be”, Review of The Unfinished Dollhouse by Michael Coren, Globe & Mail, October 21, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/u7jsczc

Review: Michelle Alfano's 'The Unfinished Dollhouse' by KJ Mullins, newz4u.ca, October 19, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/rjtkqra

 

Media Interviews

Interview on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, January 2, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/sdd3xs9

Featured on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers, CBC Radio, January 8, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/v2knoo2 

Dog-Eared: Michelle Alfano, the author of "The Unfinished Dollhouse," on how her view of Tolstoy's classic novel "Anna Karenina" has changed as she's grown older

https://tinyurl.com/uouyfrv

Interview with Dr. Paul Salvatori for The Dark Room, May 13, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/uy6hqa4

Radio Interview with Gill Deacon on Here & Now, CBC Radio 99.1, December 5, 2017 

Radio Interview with John Moore, CFRB Newstalk 1010, November 12, 2017

Radio Interview with Val Assenza on HOWL, CIUT, October 17, 2017

Print & On-line Interviews

The Unfinished Dollhouse: A family’s transition with a transgender child by Nick Patch, Toronto Star, October 28, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/uxbdzmw

A Literary Passion: La Vita Letteraria by Maria Scala, Panoram Italia, February/March 2019

https://tinyurl.com/whu69gg 

Michelle Alfano on Her Memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse by Liana Cusmano, accenti.ca, August 15, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/skwfubm

River Fujimoto’s Q&A on TVO.org, January 4, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/qrs2mrq

Un momento with Michelle Alfano, Interview with Domenico Capilongo, Italocanadese.com, March 15, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/r4tlgo5

 

Recommendations

West Vancouver Memorial Library’s LGBTQ Non-Fiction List, February 2020

Selected for the reading list of the 2019 Transgender Spectrum Conference, College of Arts & Science, Washington University in St. Louis, November 9, 2019

Seattlegayscene.com’s LGBTQ Book to Read for January 2019

Burnaby Public Library’s 2018 Summer Read