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Bunnyhug Cynic
In Bunnyhug Cynic, award-winning writer Craig Silliphant serves up a collection of comedic, nonfiction essays about pop culture, the crushing absurdity of existence, and the glory days of Bonanza Steakhouse.
With irreverent humour, Gen X cynicism, and rock n’ roll prose, Silliphant muses about God, swearing as an art form, and what Gord Downie’s death meant to Canada. He spends a weekend with the Stanley Cup, questions why we’re still Saskatchewan Roughrider fans, and nurses a grudge for an overplayed Bob Seger hit. He’s attacked by a murder of crows, cursed by cheap furniture, and exasperated by everything from censorship to Gen Z fashion to the modern multiplex.
At the heart of the book is the standout essay Salad Bar Days, a nostalgic and biting tribute to his teen years bussing tables at Bonanza.
Bunnyhug Cynic is a prairie-spun salad bar of truth bombs, with croutons of cultural critique, smothered in a rich comedy sauce.
You are cordially invited to question your assumptions about family, society, and the universe itself. But mostly, to have a few laughs along the way.
With irreverent humour, Gen X cynicism, and rock n’ roll prose, Silliphant muses about God, swearing as an art form, and what Gord Downie’s death meant to Canada. He spends a weekend with the Stanley Cup, questions why we’re still Saskatchewan Roughrider fans, and nurses a grudge for an overplayed Bob Seger hit. He’s attacked by a murder of crows, cursed by cheap furniture, and exasperated by everything from censorship to Gen Z fashion to the modern multiplex.
At the heart of the book is the standout essay Salad Bar Days, a nostalgic and biting tribute to his teen years bussing tables at Bonanza.
Bunnyhug Cynic is a prairie-spun salad bar of truth bombs, with croutons of cultural critique, smothered in a rich comedy sauce.
You are cordially invited to question your assumptions about family, society, and the universe itself. But mostly, to have a few laughs along the way.
193 pages, Paperback
Published July 6, 2025
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About the author
Craig Silliphant
4 books5 followersCraig Silliphant is an award-winning writer, working in both mainstream and underground media as a writer, essayist, film and music critic, broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker. His work is known through outlets like CBC, Post Media, CTV, Rawlco Radio, Global TV, CFCR, Planet S Magazine, Prairie Dog Magazine, The National Post, The Feedback Society, Shaw Spotlight, and many more.
His non-fiction book, ‘Exile Off Main St: Random Dispatches from the Saskatoon Music Scene,’ was a local best-seller. He is a juror on the Polaris Music Prize and the Juno Awards. He wrote and co-produced an award-winning Global TV documentary called, ‘Stolen Sisters,’ about the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Nothing You Do Matters is his first foray into published fiction.
His non-fiction book, ‘Exile Off Main St: Random Dispatches from the Saskatoon Music Scene,’ was a local best-seller. He is a juror on the Polaris Music Prize and the Juno Awards. He wrote and co-produced an award-winning Global TV documentary called, ‘Stolen Sisters,’ about the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Nothing You Do Matters is his first foray into published fiction.
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January 25, 2026
Probably would be a 3 if it was a big time publisher but for a self published book by a local author (which I like to support) giving it a 4. Worth reading for the Bonanza essay haha.
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