What’s Going On?
I’m Carl Wilson, a writer and editor living in Toronto. I’m the music critic for Slate, and wrote the book Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, about aesthetic conflict, class, and Céline Dion. My next book, date very much unset, will be about David Berman, for W. W. Norton.
This newsletter is an outlet for my own cultural reflections, from the spur of the moment to long-range perspectives and the meta-critical. Often about music but far from always. It will also feature tidbits from the book in progress. It seeks conversation, in the spirit of Zoilus and Back to the World, my blogs of yore. It’s currently irregular and free (with optional donation), to evolve to regular and paid.
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“Crritic!” comes from Waiting for Godot: Estragon and Vladimir are having an insult contest, and when Gogo shouts “Crritic!”, Didi “wilts, vanquished, and turns away.” The related visual above and on my emails is by Sean Dixon.
The misleadingly flattering portrait is by Anthony Jenkins, my former colleague at The Globe and Mail.
I am always looking for paid work, especially editing contracts. I’ve been a professional editor for decades, at The Globe and Mail and other venues. I’m good at it. Get in touch.
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