Northern Unexposure
In Sunday's Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon not only Q&A'd author Jonathan Kozol but also profiled Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, who was, Solomon wrote, "[b]orn in 1974 in the isolated Canadian wilds of Winnipeg."
On emailer took exception to that:
Isolated? Wilds? Winnipeg is a major Canadian city — no, that's not an oxymoron — with a population of 619,000 people. It has a proud history and is the home of Neil Young as well as our most recent Governor-General award winning author (Canada's highest literary prize) for fiction . Of course Ms. Solomon might just have read the September Elle magazine, where Dzama was featured in the Elle 25. Writer Rebecca Casade wrote, "Dzama landed on A-list radars while based in the wilds of Winnipeg, Canada."
I love keeping up with news from Manhattan. But maybe New Yorkers could extend the interest north sometimes, especially if they have to write about us.
And we New Yorkers would love to keep up Canadian news. Really we would. But it's tough to lean about what's going on in such isolated wilds.
