Nathan Whitlock
Author, professor, podcaster, drummer, dad.
www.nathanwhitlock.ca/
- Fun to see my podcast* interview with Rachel Reid get a shout-out in the Toronto Star story about the ongoing total cultural domination of HEATED RIVALRY. *sporting a slightly altered title...
- Author who interviews authors interviewed by author who interviews authors. Antonio Michael Downing is the author of the memoir Saga Boy the children’s book Stars in My Crown, and the novel Black Cherokee, and is the current host of CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. Listen:
- All 5 of mine have singers who look like this:

- It's cold out again. So listen to this.
- WhatsApp offering to have its in-built AI interpret my wife's messages to me is a bad joke, both in the sense of it being something a hacky comedian would riff on for 5 minutes, but also in the sense that "See you soon, love you" would require bleeding-edge tech to suss out the meaning of.
- The reason I don't engage with Louis CK stuff anymore is NOT because I suddenly discovered in late 2017 that he was never funny in the first place.
- January episodes - all great conversations. Never the usual book talk. Please subscribe, listen, and review. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
- Among its many other strengths, the opening theme music for BLUE LIGHTS lasts all of about 3.5 seconds. Very much in keeping with the "lets get down to business" feel of the show. (Though it does make you think you're in for something a little more narratively hi-octane.)
- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockWhen you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this
- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockWhen they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockSCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockWhen anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
- DREAM OF A WOMAN by Casey Plett HOW IT WORKS by Myriam Lacroix Basically any story from HELLGOING by Lynn Coady
- BLOOD SPORTS by Eden Robinson
- Graphic novel division: DUCKS by Kate Beaton THIS ONE SUMMER by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki TWO GENERALS by Scott Chantler
- BEAR by Marian Engel. Six-episode limited series. Re-titled: HEATED BESTIALITY
- Remarkable thing about O'Hara - she almost always took big swings in her work, threw herself into roles, went huge when she needed to, and sometimes even when she didn't. But there is likely not a human alive who, hearing her name, thinks: "Oh, her? Not for me."
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- Catherine O'Hara.
- What an awful year this is.
- Five-lane urban expressway vs public sidewalk. City of Hamilton really making a choice here. #hamont
- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockHey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...
- “I can’t go out. I will go out.” Samuel Beckett, if he owned a border collie
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- Reposted by Nathan WhitlockI saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.
- Body Horror making a comeback.
- Reposted by Nathan Whitlocknice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
- I do this more and more in my college writing classes. I call them my "Dead Reckoning" exercises. Because education is about process, not product.
- Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
- Old age has mellowed me out on a lot of things, but if you drive through a stop sign while I'm crossing (esp after a snowstorm or if I'm with kids) I will no longer merely flip you off and call you an a**hole... I am looking around for a rock to put through your back window.