- Bert Archer
Bert Archer (born 1968) is a Canadian
journalist ,essayist andcritic .Archer was born in
Montreal and lived inCalgary andVancouver before attendingSt. Michael's University School in Victoria,British Columbia , theUniversity of St. Michael's College at theUniversity of Toronto , andTrinity College, Dublin . He was elected editor in chief of his college's arts journal, "The Grammateion" in his second undergraduate year, and as editor-in-chief of "The Mike", the college newspaper, a year later. The year after that, he was elected president of theOntario region of theCanadian University Press , North America's oldest national student organization.While still in school he worked as an assistant to editor David Colbert at Harper & Collins Canada. In 1994, he was hired as an editorial assistant by "
Quill & Quire ", Canada's national book trade magazine. Two years later, as review editor, Archer was pressured to resign after writing an essay in the "Financial Post " which some considered derogatory to certain elements in the Canadian publishing industry, specifically, the small presses. ["Book editor resigns over controversy", "Globe and Mail", Nov. 15, 1996.] He was subsequently hired as a columnist for the "Toronto Star ", Canada's largest circulation newspaper, to review books published by small Canadian publishers.Since then, Archer has been an editor at "NOW" and "
Eye Weekly ", Toronto's two weekly alternative arts magazines, as well as the "Toronto Star" and "The Globe and Mail ". As of 2008, he is a columnist for "Toronto Life " magazine and writes for the "Globe and Mail ".He is the author of "The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality)", published in Canadacite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=775 |title=Author Spotlight: Bert Archer |work=
Random House |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 1999, in the UScite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/End-Gay-Death-Heterosexuality/dp/1904132073/ref=sr_1_1/104-8537328-6607127?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182368086&sr=8-1 |title=Books: Bert Archer |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 2002 and the UKcite web |title=Bert Archer |work=Vision Paperbacks |url=http://www.visionpaperbacks.co.uk/authorDetails.php?bookID=95 |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 2004. Archer has contributed chapters to two books: "Why Boys Are Better Than Girls" for "What I Meant to Say" (2006)cite web |title=Thomas Allen: What I Meant to Say |accessdate=2007-07-19 |url=http://www.thomas-allen.com/ThomasAllenPublishers/catalogue/0-88762-190-2.htm] and "Creating a Toronto of the Imagination" for "uTOpia" (2006).cite web |url=http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/index.php?ISBN=1552451569 |title=uTOpia |accessdate=2007-07-19]References
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