Nathan Whitlock

What Happened Next | The Walrus Interviews with writers about what happens months after a new book comes out, when the launch parties are over, the reviews are all done, and it’s time to start writing again. Honest, funny conversati...

Anne Michaels and I spoke live onstage at Humber Polytechnic’s Lakeshore Campus on July 10th, as part of Humber’s Summer Workshop in Creative Writing. This is an edited version of that conversation.
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Anne Michaels has won of the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her most recent novel, Held, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Giller Prize.
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What Happened Next | The Walrus Interviews with writers about what happens months after a new book comes out, when the launch parties are over, the reviews are all done, and it’s time to start writing again. Honest, funny conversati...

Anne Michaels and I spoke live onstage at Humber Polytechnic’s Lakeshore Campus on July 10th, as part of Humber’s Summer Workshop in Creative Writing. This is an edited version of that conversation.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Anne and I talk about how she has never developed a public persona for things like onstage interviews (like this one), about the importance of distillation in her novel-writing process, and about the idea of writers who revise their work even after it has been published.

Anne Michaels has won of the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her most recent novel, Held, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Giller Prize.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

When Doug Ford talks about ripping out bike lanes (and now wasting more public money appealing a court decision stopping him), remember that's somehow only his second worst idea to tackling traffic congestion.

I vote for a haunting, slow version of Hanson's 'MMMBop' sung by a children's choir.

This is getting purchased posthaste.

The Playlist: Vancouver Author and TV Writer Meredith Hambrock’s Cultural Picks Vancouver author and TV writer Meredith Hambrock ("Other People’s Secrets") reveals her top picks in music, podcasts, TV and literature.

"Nathan Whitlock is a winning conversationalist who asks all the right questions and has found a way to cleverly catch writers when they aren’t on the PR grind." - @meredithambrock.bsky.social being very nice about the podcast in Vancouver Magazine.
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"this jurisdiction of few exits"

Goddamn it, poetry - you did it again!

Young Nic Cage also works.

Such good lines. Why do I hear this as a voice-over monologue from a Coen Brothers film?

(from "Wager" by Karen Solie)

The Boys of Summer is a banger tho.

I’m starting to think Dirty Laundry is not about laundry.

He's notoriously un-subtle. Like a humourless Randy Newman.

This is proof you are betting on a second lockdown.

Cover of Bruce Holsinger’s CULPABILITY

Cover of Erin Somers’s THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR

Cover of Bryan Washington’s PALAVER

Guys I think it’s safe to say we have a Style for fall 2025

Spoiler for tomorrow’s very special episode, recorded live onstage.

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Just re-watched with my 10 year old. I had a big, stupid smile on the entire time. It's a big stupid smile of a movie.

“The Sinking of the Titanic” by Gavin Bryars

Huge news. The subhead and photo caption really capture the urgency of this story.

The baby on the "Nevermind" cover is 7 years older now than Cobain was when he died.

The Playlist: Vancouver Author and TV Writer Meredith Hambrock’s Cultural Picks Vancouver author and TV writer Meredith Hambrock ("Other People’s Secrets") reveals her top picks in music, podcasts, TV and literature.

"Nathan Whitlock is a winning conversationalist who asks all the right questions and has found a way to cleverly catch writers when they aren’t on the PR grind." - @meredithambrock.bsky.social being very nice about the podcast in Vancouver Magazine.
www.vanmag.com/city/arts-an...

Long weekend = ideal time to catch up on a podcast in which authors talk about the weird times before and after a book comes out.

Here are the authors I've spoken to over the past couple of months. Put me in your ears.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Long weekend = ideal time to catch up on a podcast in which authors talk about the weird times before and after a book comes out.

Here are the authors I've spoken to over the past couple of months. Put me in your ears.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Have seen it 2-3 times and still somehow forgot about the dream ballet.

Made THE HUDSUCKER PROXY our family movie last night. An underrated gem that does nothing but throw off smart-silly entertainment for 2 hours straight.

That describes some of my favourite things (and people).