Articles and Interviews

Articles, Reviews, and Interviews about Writing and Editing

INTERVIEWS OF ME

• interviewed, “Being a Librarian, Writing, and More with Wayne Jones,” Apollo Papyrus, s7e68 (April 29, 2024)
• interviewed, “Interview: Wayne Jones,” Lost in the Groove, #187 (Mar. 26, 2024)
• interviewed: “Writer & Podcaster Wayne Jones,” Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino, Feb. 22, 2024
• interviewed: “The Psychology of a Minimalist,” The KAJ Masterclass LIVE, Dec. 18, 2023
• interviewed: “Writer Beware: Writing, Editing, and Publishing,” interview on Cultural Fluency podcast, episode 18 (Sept. 8, 2023): video (YouTube) | audio (Spotify)
• interviewed: “A Writers’ Story: Collaborating Long-distance on a Bio of Greg Giraldo,” Open Shelf, Oct. 7, 2019: SoundCloud (audio missing) | transcript
• interviewed: “Wayne Jones and the Enemies of Fiction,” interview on the Media Whore Blog, Apr. 10, 2018
• interviewed: “Wayne Jones Wants You to Know about Samuel Johnson,” interview on the Media Whore Blog, Feb. 14, 2016

ARTICLES, REVIEWS, EDITING, INTERVIEWS

• interview: “Charis Cotter,” Inkpod (WritersNL), July 5, 2024
• “How an Academic Editor Can Help a Scholar Write a Better Article,” Jane Friedman Blog, June 20, 2024
• “Why I Prefer to Read Fiction without Lessons or Messages,” Jane Friedman Blog, Oct. 19, 2023
• “How Smaller Organisms Adapt to Amazon in the Self-Publishing Ecosystem,” Jane Friedman Blog, Aug. 23, 2023
• “The Index in Pale Fire,” Bulletin (Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada), v. 26, no. 1 (spring 2003)
• review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss, in Active Voice (Jan. 2005)
• Editor of Edition, the newsletter of the Toronto Branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada, 2003–2004
• review: Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2001 reissue), in Edition (Editors’ Association of Canada, Toronto Branch), Mar. 2002

Articles on Various Topics

THE KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD

During 2008-2009 (and a little into 2010), I was a member of the Community Editorial Board of the Kingston Whig-Standard, and given the luxury of publishing a column every couple of months.

• “Column Courts with Word Danger” (January 6, 2010)
• “Flu Hysteria Has Caused, Aggravated Problems” (November 6, 2009)
• “The Slippers Test of Old Age” (September 5, 2009)
• “Obama: Not God, But Better Than Bush” (July 9, 2009)
• “Pope Didn’t Say He’s Sorry” (May 12, 2009)
• “Senators: Please Get to Work” (March 14, 2009)
• “Writing Lessons Learned” (February 10, 2009)
• “Politicians Let Us Down” (December 11, 2008)
• “My Election Day Guilt Trip” (October 15, 2008)
• “Bush Displays His Hypocrisy” (August 16, 2008)
• “How the Mayor Has Failed” (June 17, 2008)
• “Get the Fighting Out of Hockey” (April 19, 2008)

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

• “Mais Oui, But of Course I Speak Français” (Aug. 22, 2002)
• “Getting a Grip on the Grapplers” (Sept. 25, 1989)

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

• “A Foodaholic Is Tired of Being Consumed” (Aug. 2, 1994)

BOOKS IN CANADA

• “Leave Language Alone!” (May 1992)