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LITERARY MAGAZINES
--”The Whale Story” [in Litbreak Magazine]
--”The Year of the Bat Mitzvah” [in Oyster River Pages]
--”Tokyo Tomato” [in Blank Spaces]
--"Last Train to Takarazuka" [in Prism International]
--(Does it Matter that) Chuck Klosterman Wore Converse to the Gladstone Hotel [in The Toronto Review of Books]
--A Friday in Japan: As to why Japanese drink and smoke as much as they do [in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal]
--"Furious George: A Schwarzeneggerian Terminator of a Tale" [in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal]
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
--"On Travelling, Traffic, Tokyo and Starbucks" [in The Globe and Mail]
--"Passports, Pears and Gatekeepers" [in The Toronto Star]
--"Bread, O.J. - and a Simian Scuffle" [in The Toronto Star]
--Restaurant Review: "Marcello's" [in Today's Parents]
--Neighbourhood Piece: "Cedarvale-Humewood" [in Today's Parent]
--Book Review: Haruki Murakami's "Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow" [in Kansai Time Out]
CHAPTERS/INDIGO
Commissioned in 2011/2012 to write weekly pieces for Chapters.Indigo's Fiction Blog; what follows is a portion of what I contributed:
Festival Coverage
Highlights from the New Yorker Festival, Luminato & the International Festival of Authors (2011 except where noted)
--Jeffrey Eugenides, Nicole Krauss & Jhumpa Lahiri
--Haruki Murakami (2008)
--Tom Perrotta and Russell Banks: Adapting the Novel
--Magic, Myth and Forces Beyond Reason (with Erin Morgenstern, -Lev Grossman and Simon Toyne)
--On Sacred Texts: The New Yorker at Luminato
--Luminato: Art as Safe Ground?
Book Reviews
--BOO, Katherine -- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
--BOTTON, Alain de -- Religion for Atheists
--ENGLANDER, Nathan -- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
--EUGENIDES, Jeffrey -- The Marriage Plot
--HARBACH, Chad -- The Art of Fielding
--IRVING, John -- In One Person
--MURAKAMI, Haruki --1Q84
--ONDAATJE, Michael -- The Cat's Table
--PERROTTA, Tom -- The Leftovers
--TORRES, Justin We the Animals
Author Interviews
--The Art of Fielding's Chad Harbach