Writing
New
Interview Magazine — From Kashmir to Hollywood, Author Priyanka Mattoo Has Seen the World
Jude the Brave — My short story won a Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards
Outside Magazine – How a Skin Cancer Diagnosis Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors
The Globe and Mail – Assembled, my monthly contribution:
– Summer, Before the Internet
– I will never forget
— Spring, 1924
— My memories are being erased
— People line up
Essays
The New York Times – We Thought We Were Saving the Planet but We Were Planting a Time Bomb
The Globe & Mail – After I was diagnosed with the same type of skin cancer that killed my father, I had to alter my relationship with the sun
The New Yorker – “Bear” Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear
Lenny Letter – Neanderthals Were Women, Too
Lithub – Why You Shouldn’t Get Into a Fight with Jane Smiley
Chatelaine – On Self Care
L’Espresso Magazine – Appuntamento a Neanderthal (translated into Italian)
The Millions – A Forgotten Bestseller: The Saga of John Williams’s Stoner
The Millions – How to Tweet Like Boris from The Goldfinch
Interviews
Esquire – Ireland's Most Notorious Murderer Speaks At Last
The Millions – Artifacts of the Present: The Millions Interviews Emily St. John Mandel
The Millions — How Should a Writer Be? An Interview with Sheila Heti
I do on stage interviews for The Salon Series at The Toronto Public Library
Assembled Words
The Globe & Mail
Also for:
The Guardian – 'There's nothing to prepare you': what it's like to witness an execution
The New York Times – Last Words, a compilation of executed inmates last statements for the Op-Ed section
– Featured on Boing Boing, Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish in the Atlantic Monthly, The Michael Smerconish Show and NPR’s national show ‘Here & Now’ hosted by Robin Young
The Alpinist – She Climbed Alone
Brick Magazine – Black squirrels make a very nice pudding (Issue 92, Winter)
Lists
The Millions – Five Ways Being a Writer and Professional Skateboarder Are the Same
The Daily Beast – How to Survive – Five Stories About Unlikely Survivors
P.S. We like lists because we don’t want to die — Umberto Eco
Emeritus Staff writer at The Millions