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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Lecture

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Lecture

Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of my favourite albums. But this sonic masterpiece was also one that said a lot about the state of the recording industry, predicted the future of how we’d listen to music and was the band’s departure that marked the end of the beginning for alt-country. I’ll be giving a lecture on the influence of […]

The dangerous pride of the innumerate journalist

The dangerous pride of the innumerate journalist

The dangerous pride of the innumerate journalist “I suck at math–that’s why I went into journalism” is a line I’ve heard for decades. And I’ve always hated it because journalism is no place for people who hate numbers and science to hide. After all, most good stories need numbers. So I wrote a little rant […]

CIHR Journalism Award

CIHR Journalism Award I managed to score a Canadian Institutes of Health Research journalism award to write about music and health. I will be doing stories for Maisonneuve and Reader’s Digest. And I hope this is the beginning of another great adventure (a book, in other words).

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us I am collaborating with psychologist and popular parenting expert Alex Russell on a book called Here We Are Now, Entertain Us: Parenting in the Age of Entitlement. Wiley Canada will publish the book in the spring of 2012.

Berton House Writers Retreat

Berton House Writers Retreat I will be writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon from April through June, 2012. (Yes, the wait is killing me.)