SHOPOMANIA
in the news
📺Paul Berton talks Shopomania with TVO’s Steve Paikin
on The Agenda, 23 minutes (November 2022)
https://www.tvo.org/video/whats-up-with-our-obsession-for-possessions
🎙Paul Berton talks Shopomania on the Lean Out Podcast with Tara Henley, 30 minutes (November 2022)
https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/shopomania#details
📺Paul Berton talks Shopomania with Annette Hamm
at CHCH-TV, 6 minutes (November 2022)
https://www.chch.com/shopomania-takes-a-light-hearted-look-at-our-obsession-with-possessions/
📰Shop til we drop? Paul Berton’s new book ‘Shopomania’ catches all the action, by Jeff Mahoney, The Spectator (October 2022)
https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/books/opinion/2022/10/22/paul-berton-shopomania.html
📰Stuff of childhood started Paul Berton’s path to book on shopping, by Jennifer Bieman, The London Free Press (October 2022)
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/stuff-of-childhood-started-paul-bertons-path-to-book-on-shopping
📰If you can’t talk about it, is it really shopping? New book explores the language of consumerism, The Toronto Star (October 2022)
📰The perfect tree isn’t what counts, The Spectator (December 2022)
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/columnists/2022/12/03/the-perfect-tree-isnt-what-counts.html
📰The Velvet Noose (October 2023)
The Hamilton Spectator's Jeff Mahoney writes about "the velvet noose of fame and fortune" in Berton's latest book, Misfortune and Fame: 10 Reasons You Don't Want to be Rich (or Famous).
📺Paul Berton talks fame and fortune with
Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV (November 2023) Mutsumi Takahashi of CTV News interviews Paul Berton on Misfortune and Fame: 10 Reasons You Don't Want to be Rich (or Famous).
📰Q&A (November 2022) Ian Coutts interviews Paul Berton for the Zoomer Book Club.
📰Review of Misfortune and Fame (January 2023)Joseph Hnatiuk of the Winnipeg Free Press calls Misfortune and Fame "more than a gossip column on steroids," but "terse, lucid and forcefully compelling."