Recent Work
“The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem,” The Walrus
“The Grove,” Los Angeles Review of Books
“Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable,” The Walrus
“The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design,” The Walrus
“Do I Really Need to Op-Ed to Sell Books?” Vulture/New York Magazine
“Seven Books that Earn Your Tears,” The Atlantic
The Walrus Column
“I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety”
“How Do You Even Sell a Book Anymore?”
“The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket”
“Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada”
“Do We Really Need a Taylor Swift Reporter?”
“The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms”
“Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?”
“TikTok Is Becoming a Publisher. Will It Ruin the Book Industry?”
“The Existential Crisis of Writing for Free”
“All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?”
“In the Internet Archive Lawsuit, a Win for Publishers May Come at a Cost for Readers Everywhere”
“AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should Take Note”
Selected Essays & Reviews
“Meanwhile, in Canada, Defensiveness Has Reached New Heights,” Gawker
“Toronto’s Uninviting Housing Market Convinced Me to Become a Renter in New York,” Toronto Star
“America Doesn’t Know How to Read the Work of Black Writers,” Time (Book excerpt)
“Why Success in Canada Means Moving to America,” The Walrus (Book excerpt)
“How the Book Industry Turns Its Own Racism Into a Marketable Product,” Lit Hub (Book excerpt)
“I Read My Own Audiobook Like It Was Someone Else’s,” Catapult
“On Not Being Able to Read,” Longreads
“How Can We Expand the Way We Write About Our Identities?,” BuzzFeed
“Surveillance, Sourdough Starter, and Black Flâneurie,” The End of the World Review
“How Not to Write a Book About a Minority Experience,” The Walrus
“Tiny White People Took Over My Brain,” Electric Literature
“Building a Home Used to Be Easy––Especially in The Sims,” Catapult
“The Writer Alone,” Longreads
“How I Found Love, One Literary Event at a Time,” Lit Hub
“My Life as a Berenstain Bear,” Electric Literature
Review of Bunny by Mona Awad, The Walrus
Review of Reproduction by Ian Williams and Days By Moonlight by André Alexis, The Walrus
“Poet Rupi Kaur Comes Full Circle with Brampton Performance,” The Globe and Mail