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Books & Journalism

Nothing like the smell of fresh books

The most enjoyable part of any publishing project whether in newspapers, magazines or books is the arrival of the finished product. My fi...

Chicago gets excited about Herbert Hoover

I've long had a thing for Chicago, started when my father worked for International Harvester and went there for his most important busine...

Get ready to hear a lot about Trump and Herbert Hoover

David Shribman, the Pulitzer-winning editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote this terrific piece on the struggles of Trump, the Repub...

How much time does Postmedia have left?

It's been just over two years since Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper company, paid $316 million for 175 newspapers and websites belo...

There's No Life Like It: Definitive Biography of Herbert Hoover To Be Published By Knopf, Octobe

I often get asked why I thought it was worth spending seven years on a biography of a failed president. Here's part of the answer. For th...

What Hal Niedzviecki said

Last week, Hal Niedzviecki, editor of Write magazine (a Writer’s Union publication) resigned his position over an opinion article he wrot...

A Rare Note of Optimism on Data Privacy

It’s been said that data is the oil of the 21st century. I’m sure by now we all know our data, not just what we get up to online but also...

The Tendency to Replace One Leader with a Polar Opposite

The Financial Times: "America tends to choose presidents whose personalities are the opposite of their predecessors. Mr Obama, the reason...

Why Print Needs to Crash and Burn

Following on my recent and rather depressing post on the impossibility of transitioning a media company from print to digital, I want to...

The Myth of the Print Transition to Digital

Some of you have probably read Anne Marie Owen's letter to her newsroom at the National Post about the efforts of the paper to transform ...

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Canada's Non-Fiction Crisis

Do You Ever Need An Editor!

Back When People Lived Lives

The New Goldrush

Daniel Defoe on Covid-19

How to Write a Life

Who's Canceling Whom

"Surpasses Even Shakespeare"

Burning a Literary City

A Visit with Grumpy Ben

The Only Way to be a Writer

Break Them Up!

Caring for Books

There are too Many Books

This Dangerous Business

Inside Bill's Bag

The Only Way to be a Writer

Ms. Amiel's Friends & Enemies

Break them Up

My Interview with Santa

Best of the Best '20

All the Latest on Random Penguins

How Much of Life is Luck?

Book Sales Go Nuts

Writing About an Ex

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