Some shameless self-promotion here. You should pick up a copy of The Best Canadian Essays 2010. My article “The Illegals,” first published in Toronto Life last fall, made the cut. There are also articles by Ira Basen, Elizabeth Hay and Jason McBride.
Chris Jones profiles Roger Ebert
Posted 20. Feb, 2010
If you haven’t read Chris Jones’ profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire, you really should. Jones is a great writer — he won a national magazine gold in 2009 for “The Things That Carried Him,” in which he follows the path of an American soldier killed in Iraq, starting with his funeral. In his profile […]
Darwin and Kentucky’s Creation Museum
Posted 23. Jan, 2010
In “Roll Over, Charles Darwin,” published in Vanity Fair, A.A. Gill takes us on a visit to a “museum” trying as hard as it can to make up for huge gaps in logic (Dinosaurs — albeit of the smallish type — among the animal couples populating Noah’s ark, for example). It reminded me of a […]