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You
can probably imagine. I read. I do stuff you do not need to know about.
I live my off-line life. I read some more. Much of the time, I work at the Georgia Straight. When I can, I picnic.
NEWS:
I've finished a teen novel called Runnerland. It will be published by Raincoast Books in spring 2007.
I've
cowritten a book called The Urban Picnic
Distressingly frequently,
I venture out in public:
Why, just in December 2005 I'll be at the Jewish Book Festival.
I taught a 400-level undergrad course at SFU Harbour Centre in spring and summer 2005, called Books, Markets, and Readers
CBC Studio One Book Club
Co-host
and interviewer, with Sheryl Mackay. Guests:
Douglas Coupland | June 26, 2006
Anhony Bourdain | June 11, 2006
Marian Keyes | May 25, 2006
Paul Yee | May 17, 2006
Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) | May 12, 2006
David Suzuki | May 7, 2006
Anosh Irani | April 29, 2006
Louis Sachar | March 30, 2006
Mike Harcourt | March 4, 2006
George RR Martin | January 13, 2006
Vikram Seth | November 4, 2005
Alexander McCall Smith | August 10, 2005
Vancouver Stories with George Bowering, Stephen Osborne, and Zsuzsi Gartner | May 15, 2005
Douglas Coupland and Darrell Fox | April 21, 2005
Anthony Bourdain | November 5, 2004
Susanna Clarke | October 22, 2004
Wayson Choy | October 20, 2004
Ian Rankin | October 13, 2004
Roddy Doyle | October 1, 2004
2nd annual Studio One Cookbook Club with Anna Olsen and Dreena Burton | September 26, 2004
Canada Reads Studio One Challenge | March 21, 2004
Kennth Oppel | March 14, 2004
Douglas
Coupland | October 23, 2003
Ann-Marie
MacDonald | October 1, 2003
1st annual Studio One Cookbook Club with Rob Feenie, Eve Johnson, and Mona Brun | September 28, 2003
Margaret
Atwood | April 22, 2003
William
Gibson | March 10, 2003
Jann
Arden | October 23, 2002
Salman
Rushdie | September 22, 2002
Straight
Off the Page author series
Host
and producer. Guests:
Paul
& Audrey Grescoe, Bill Richardson, Dan Savage |
January
19, 2003
Douglas
Coupland, Will Ferguson, Aislinn Hunter, Thomas
Wharton | July
7, 2002
Wayde
Compton, Marni Jackson, Nancy Lee, Timothy Taylor
| June
2, 2002
Maria
Coffey, Sarah Ellis, Ross Laird, Madeleine Thien
| April
21, 2002
Regular
reviewer / panellist
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North by Northwest, CBC Radio June 2002 - present
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The Arts Tonight, CBC Radio November 2003 and November 2005
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Mason Lee on the Edge, CTV Dec. 1999 - Dec. 2001
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Booked on Saturday Night, CBC TV Sept. 1998
- I've also appeared on The Arts Today with Eleanor Wachtel, NPR's Morning Edition, The Vicki Gabereau Show, Breakfast Television (Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa), and Urban Rush
Print journalism
Regular contributor to the Georgia Straight, the Globe & Mail, NUVO Magazine, the Toronto Star.
Awards
Western
Magazine Awards, finalist (profile) 2005
National
Magazine Awards, finalist (arts and entertainment) 2004
Western
Magazine Awards, finalist (profile) 2002
Other
Vancouver
International Writers Festival, moderator 2002, 2004, and 2005
Word
on the Street, panellist/moderator 2001 - 2005
Word
on the Street, member, advisory board 2003 -
SFU
Symposium on the Novel, panellist July 2002 and July 2003
SFU
Symposium on the Novel, host and moderator July 2005
B.C.
Book Prizes, presenter April 2002
B.C.
Book Prizes, judge (fiction) April 2005
Vancouver
Arts Awards, juror (writing and publishing) 2005
Booming
Ground, UBC, moderator 2001 - 2005
Western
Magazine Awards, juror (fiction) 2002 and juror (Manitoba gold) 2003 and 2004
Western
Magazine Awards, board member 2004 -
Association
of Radio Drama in English, juror 2003
B.C.
Festival of the Arts, panellist July 2002
Creative
Magazine Writing, SFU, speaker 2000 - present
A
biographical squib appeared in BC Bookworld. Details here.
"Looks like Tobey Maguire" (YouThink Magazine)
Click
on photos for a new window with high-res version. All photos copyright
© Phillip
Chin
You can e-mail me here.
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