Dawson City’s 1905 Stanley Cup challenge
I recently managed to find another excuse to visit the Yukon. I did events to promote Bad Singer in Whitehorse and Dawson City, saw friends and enjoyed the scenery, the skies and the light, but the main reason for my trip was research. I want to write a historical non-fiction book about Dawson City’s 1905 Stanley […]
The Globe and Mail names Bad Singer to most anticipated books list
The Globe and Mail names Bad Singer to “most anticipated books” list
Bad Singer cover
My next book, Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music, will be out May 14, 2016. Here’s the cover.
Talking to the ‘rents about death
Talking to the ‘rents about death Talking about how we want to die is not easy for anyone. But we do need to talk about it, as I argued in this piece for Hazlitt called “Bringing Death to the Table.” I wrote it in March 2015, a few weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that we have a […]
Drop the Worry Ball released again
Drop the Worry Ball released again Because the publishing industry is weird, Drop the Worry Ball, the parenting book I helped psychologist Alex Russell write, is out again. With a new cover. From a new publisher. At a new lower price. Here’s what happened: Wiley, our original publisher, decided to get out of trade books […]
Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism
Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism I said I wouldn’t do it again. In fact, in December, 2011, I wrote “A Fond Farewell,” a post saying goodbye to the Ryerson Review of Journalism after being the instructor on the award-winning magazine five times. But last September, I took the job again. And I’m glad […]
Klondike Creative Class
Klondide Creative Class What’s the Klondike really like today, more than a century after the Gold Rush? Well, according to one filmmaker who lives in Dawson City, it’s like Leonard Cohen’s Greece. Here’s “Klondike Creative Class,” my story about the coolest town in Canada and how it created a thriving arts community. And here’s an […]
