My guest on this episode is Rachel Giese. Rachel is an author and the deputy national editor at The Globe and Mail. Her writing has appeared in The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, NewYorker.com, Toronto Life, Today's Parent, Hazlitt and RealLife.com. Her book Boys: What it Means to Become a Man, published in 2018 by HarperCollins Canada, was a bestseller, won the Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Favourite Books of the year. The Toronto Star said that “Boys gives us hope that busting apart ‘The Man Box’ will ultimately lead to fuller, more rewarding lives not just for boys, but for all of us.”

Rachel and I talk about publishing a somewhat hopeful book about men and masculinity right before Donald Trump became president for the first time, about her related wish that she could publish an updated version of Boys every year, and about how her conception of what constitutes good writing relates to her favourite kind of vintage alarm clock.

This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus.

Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

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