Saturday, January 22, 2022

My first novel: Still More Stubborn Stars

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  It's out now. People are calling it funny and sweet. One thing for sure, it's not autobiographical, though it contains lots of bi...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Avoiding vaccine panic

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  Last May, when COVID-19 vaccines were a dream, I researched and wrote a story for The Walrus on how COVID-19 vaccines would affect the a...
Friday, November 16, 2018

¿Libertad personal o negocio millonario?/Get high, sell high

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This fall I wrote a piece for El Cultural , the high-minded magazine supplement of Mexico's  La Razón newspaper, about Canada's de...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Pop que sueña que está soñando/Paddy McAloon’s sad, beautiful Taj Mahal

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My friend Wenceslao Bruciaga recently asked to write an essay for the Mexican music magazine  Marvin,  to run as a companion piece with ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Revisiting the albums of my youth: I’m Your Man

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In my university years, my musical tastes started to stray from the pop charts, but mostly on a quest for the newest thing, and what w...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Revisiting the albums of my youth: Super Trouper

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Released in 1979, ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 was, in my home, generally acknowledged to be my father’s album, though anybody in the fam...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Travel as nostalgia

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This piece , which I wrote for National Geographic Traveller India, about revisiting places after a long time away, had been floating arou...