Hal Niedzviecki's Reviews
Reviews of Hal’s Work
Nov.14.2011
Published by TheRumpus.net
...we get a sense of life’s mystery lurking just beyond our vision. Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened reveals the super powers of story telling for the digital age—or...
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May.14.2011
Published by Winnipeg Free Press
IN this new collection of short stories, Toronto journalist and fiction writer Hal Niedzviecki offers a dizzying mix of tales that demonstrate how we are turning less humane in an...
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Published by Quill & Quire
Look Down is novelist, cultural commentator, and Broken Pencil magazine founder Hal Niedzviecki’s first collection of short stories since 1998. The stories here are raw, energetic...
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Apr.14.2011
Published by Now Magazine
But when Niedzviecki applies his astute observational powers to themes he understands through and through, he’s superb. In the very sharp Undead, about a man obsessed with...
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Apr.01.2011
Published by Booklist
With dark humor and deep compassion, Niedzviecki, cultural critic and author of The Peep Diaries (2009), delivers a haunting collection peopled by characters on the verge of...
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Dec.09.2009
Published by The Daily Loaf
It’s strange not only what we share but how compulsive we have become about sharing. And it goes beyond sharing. In person, we can be private, almost secretive. Behind one of...
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Aug.02.2009
Published by The Ottawa Citizen
Peep, which can instantly evoke images of transparency, transgression and totalitarianism, is all about contradictions, he concludes.
For good or ill, it's almost certainly...
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Jul.24.2009
Published by Salon.com
If you, like me, are somewhat private by nature, you are often made uneasy by our exceedingly confessional society, one in which friends upload photos of all things personal —...
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Jul.10.2009
Published by PopMatters.com
I whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone who is participating in our Peep-obsessed culture. If you blog, Tweet or use any other form of social networking to reach out and...
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Published by The Winnipeg Free Press
The Peep Diaries
How We're Learning to Love
Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors
By Hal Niedzviecki
City Lights, 296 pages, $18
IS the Internet turning North Americans into...
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May.20.2009
Published by Now Magazine
Hal Niedzviecki’s new book coins the term “peep culture” and harnesses a ton of research – as well as his impressive analytical skills – in a way that’s sure to make the term...
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Jun.02.2009
Published by The Globe and Mail
I hate Facebook. I've grown to dread the banal, relentless churn of it: the minutiae of people's status updates, the way it turns otherwise decent people into crass self-promoters...
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Apr.06.2009
Published by Publisher's Weekly
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors Hal Niedzviecki. City Lights $17.95 paper (252p) ISBN 978-0-87286-499-3
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Niedzviecki is a gifted writer, thoughtful and insightful.”
—The Globe and Mail
About Hal
Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challengespreconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the authorof many books including The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves...
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