Archive for category: The print medium

An immediately recognizable gay boy (21st-century edition)    (2015.10.22)

In All Out, a dual autobiography with his dad Kevin, young 21st-century gay ginger Alex Newman shows his life story is exactly the same as most gay boys’ from time immemorial

‘Gawker: An Oral History’    (2015.08.16)

Brian Abrams has written a classic of the oral-history genre

Best blurb ever    (2015.05.12)

Jeff Mann’s Cub has the best blurb ever

田亀源五郎    (2015.05.12)

Gengoroh Tagame (and compère Anne Ishii) were terribly charming at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015

Before there was David Carr there was Sid Adilman    (2015.02.21)

Canadian hacks must not forget Sid Adilman, who germinated dozens of journalistic careers, including my own

‘Unlimited Embrace’    (2015.02.19)

I did not know one could learn so much from literary criticism. Then I read Unlimited Embrace by Reed Woodhouse

Elon Green, literati’s cyberbully    (2014.10.11)

The social-justice warrior’s cries of sexism do not justify worsening actual health or threatening human life

Mr. PIETSCH    (2014.06.03)

Mr. PIETSCH let me down

Logrolling in our time    (2014.04.18)

Jason McBride does not quite recapitulate an old Spy article for Toronto Life