have been thinking about this gorgeous brittney griner portrait for days and i JUST noticed who took the photo

tfw you do an amazing ethan hawke interview and it produces gold standard commentary: defector.com/ethan-hawke-wa…

my church is the doctor who once said somewhere online maybe idk that if yer gonna eat fast food eat pizza cause it’s the least bad.

just did two podcasts back to back and now im going to sit in the sun and eat pizza.

'I never wanted to be a professional artist.'

i spoke with Gen X legend Ethan Hawke about finding authenticity in life and art, and his new movie Wildcat, starring daughter Maya Hawke as Flannery O'Connor defector.com/ethan-hawke-wa…

would like to get a collective three cheers for the sources who have the IRON SPINE to be the FIRST to go on the record. journalism would be nothing without them.

SCREAMING.

i know a dude who is familiar with mindfulness meditation when i see one. ❤️ ethan hawke. defector.com/ethan-hawke-wa…

this is the only way to interview ethan hawke

the cornerstone of “adulthood”

still laughing at this tweet. WHAT DOES IT MEAN, DAVID.

“With TIFF it’s like, ‘You should be grateful to be working in a job that you’re passionate about.’”

ICYMI my longform reported feature Canadian Business on the TIFF LIGHTBOX dropped yesterday. canadianbusiness.com/ideas/how-did-…

r.i.p. Paul Auster, seen here as a Columbia undergrad participating in the 1968 uprising in a shot from Peter Whitehead’s THE FALL

the fact that they are not giving campus reporters the privileges they are giving established reporters who are providing the false news they are fed is a real indictment of mainstream journalism.

listening to wkcr on the columbia situation and the balanced live reporting (eg limp protester that reporter is careful to say could be a form of resistance) and compassion with each other is amazing to witness from such young reporters.

if yer a guy, yer immediate reaction to my work CAN be to tell me how to improve it, but my response LIKELY will be not to listen.

so you read and loved soraya roberts' righteous screed about Toronto's mismanaged arts institutions

now read her investigation into the mismanagement of TIFF, an organization struggling under the weight of its flagship headquarters canadianbusiness.com/ideas/how-did-…

it took me 3500 words and many many interviews to answer this: canadianbusiness.com/ideas/how-did-…

i always wonder a bit when journalists say they are quitting their jobs to speak truth to power...and then announce they are doing that at substack.