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When did life itself become a treatable mental disorder?

Grief is a new psychic territory. You cross into an altered land, and meet the residents, who greet you as if inviting you into their tribe. They are kindred. You may have only known them glancingly…
PUBLISHED: April 28, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (619 words)

7 great reads: this year’s ASME finalists in feature/profile writing

Awards season continues with the announcement of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ finalists for the National Magazine Award. The organization this week honored 62 publications in…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1504 words)

What my magazine writing students will read this semester

It’s been a couple of years since I last taught my magazine and feature writing course at Laurier Brantford, so I took some time over the holidays to update my reading list to incorporate some…
AUTHOR:Bruce

“Why’s this so good?” No. 64: David Grann and Sherlock Holmes

PUBLISHED: Oct. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1314 words)
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“Why’s this so good?” No. 63: Michael Paterniti and the earthquake

by Joanna Kakissis | October 16, 2012 After a 7.0 earthquake destroyed Haiti on Jan. 23, 2010, I spent weeks reading news reports about a tragedy so massive and devastating the numbers alone…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1243 words)

Life of a salesman: Selling success, when the American dream is downsized

He had always managed to find optimism in even the worst circumstances, and here was another chance: a heat advisory, 98 degrees and rising at 11 a.m., the hottest day of the year yet. “Thank…
AUTHOR:Eli Saslow
PUBLISHED: Oct. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (570 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 61: John McPhee and the archdruid

by Adam Hochschild | October 2, 2012 The New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s – by Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and others – made the biggest collective splash in recent American…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3477 words)

Mugglemarch

Rowling says, “There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher.” The conifer hedge
AUTHOR:Ian Parker
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9056 words)

Face the Music

Tim Falconer, pictured. Photograph by Kourosh Keshiri. That piano was mocking me, I’m sure of it.  A few years ago, I went on a writer’s retreat at the Banff Centre. My…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5333 words)
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