Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki (born January 9, 1971) is a Canadian novelist and cultural critic.

He was raised in Ottawa, Ontario and Potomac, Maryland, and studied at the University of Toronto and Bard College. In 1995, he cofounded the magazine Broken Pencil, a guide to underground arts and zine culture, and was the magazine's editor until 2002. He has also written for Adbusters, Utne Reader, This Magazine, Geist, Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail and the National Post.

Bibliography

• Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada (1998, anthology)
• Smell It (1998, short fiction)
• We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture (2000)
• Ditch (2001, novel)
• The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac (2002, with Darren Wershler-Henry)
• Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity (2004)
• The Program (2005, novel)

External Link

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