2016 In My Fucking Excellent Looks

2016 was a banner year for comeback kids and unlikely breakout stars alike: Kermit the Frog reemerged as a meme favorite, an elderly dysprosody sufferer who used to play the meanest HR guy on reality TV show The Recruit became the president-elect, and the heretofore…

Simply The Best: My Favorite Things That I Wrote In 2016

My writing output in 2016 was smaller than in 2015, largely because I spent 2015 writing at an unsustainable volume and with far more writing obligations than I had in 2016. I was afraid at first of putting this list together…

The Year in Humbling

A little over a year ago, I moved from Canada to the US. (My political timing was, uh, impeccable.) The idea was to leave the small, self-congratulatory world of Toronto magazines for the big, self-congratulatory world of New York magazines. Instead, through a series of happy accidents, I…

The Year in Jumping Ship

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I’ve been writing and editing — in formal and informal capacities — for most of my…

My 2016 As An INFLUENCER As Evidenced By My Presence On Tweet Round Ups

Tweet round-ups are like that day-after-the-party phone call with your aunt where she repeats the jokes she heard that night before. Media loves them because we are lazy fuckers who prefer tweeting to…

The one where I quit my job

Last March, I decided to quit my job. I’m a big believer in quitting institutions—I’ve quit sports teams…

Kyle Chayka Industries: 2016 Annual Report

There was a Ben Lerner interview quote I saw somewhere this year (I know, I know)…

Circus Circus

I believe the Trump presidency comes from a failure of imagination. We have to…

Twenty sixteen

I can’t write about my year in writing without acknowledging the year in crisis. They are inseparable. The urgency of the times compelled me to spill most of my words recklessly, usually in the confines of some corporately-mediated platform: A tweet, an email a text, a hastily opened document that…