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Shawn Micallef

Shawan Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (McClelland & Steward, 2016), Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Coach House, 2010), and The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure (Coach House, 2014). He is a weekly columnistat the Toronto Star and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent,Jane Jacobs Prize–winning magazine Spacing. Shawn teaches at the Universityof Toronto and was a 2011–12 Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College.In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, heco-founded [murmur], the location-based mobile phone documentary projectthat spread to over twenty-five cities globally.

Books by Shawn Micallef

Displacement City

Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

by (author) Greg Cook & Cathy Crowe
foreword by Robyn Maynard
afterword by Shawn Micallef

The Toronto Book of the Dead

by (author) Adam Bunch
foreword by Shawn Micallef

Frontier City

Toronto on the Verge of Greatness

by (author) Shawn Micallef

The Trouble with Brunch

Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

by (author) Shawn Micallef

Full Frontal T.O.

Exploring Toronto's Architectural Vernacular

text by Shawn Micallef
by (photographer) Patrick Cummins

Stroll

Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto

by (author) Shawn Micallef
illustrated by Marlena Zuber