Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche ( ; born 1976) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is an alumnus of The University of King's College and of City College of New York (CUNY). In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto. He taught Renaissance drama at CUNY until 2007, when he resigned in order to write full-time.

Career as writer

Marche is a contributing editor at '' Esquire'', for which he writes a monthly column entitled "A Thousand Words about Our Culture". In 2011, this column was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary. Marche's articles also appear in ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker,'' ''The Atlantic'', ''The Walrus'', ''The Guardian'', and other publications. Marche is also a weekly contributor to CBC Radio.

Marche's novel ''Raymond and Hannah'' was published in 2005. An anthology of short stories linked by a common plot element, ''Shining at the Bottom of the Sea'', followed in 2007. ''How Shakespeare Changed Everything'' was published in 2011. Another novel, ''The Hunger Of The Wolf'', was published in February 2015. Marche's take on the state of male–female relations in the 21st century, ''The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Centur''y, was published in March 2017 with contributions from his wife.

Marche wrote an opinion piece published by ''The New York Times'' on August 14, 2015, titled "The Closing of the Canadian Mind." In this article he was critical of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, linking him with Rob Ford, former Mayor of Toronto who was involved in a crack cocaine scandal. Marche also published an opinion piece in ''The New York Times'' on November 25, 2017, titled "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido," about the challenges and necessity of male engagement with feminism.

Personal life

Marche is married to Sarah Fulford, the former editor-in-chief of ''Toronto Life'' magazine. Fulford is a daughter of eminent Canadian journalist Robert Fulford. Marche and Fulford have a son and daughter, and live in Toronto.

Bibliography

Novels

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* (2015). ''The Hunger Of The Wolf.''

Short fiction

* (2007). ''Shining at the Bottom of the Sea''.

Non-fiction

* (2011). ''How Shakespeare Changed Everything.''
* (2017).''The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century''.
* (2022). '' The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future''.

Essays and Reporting

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* (August 14, 2015). "The Closing of the Canadian Mind." ''The New York Times.''
* (November 17, 2017). "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido." ''The New York Times.''
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* (April 20, 2019)
"The 'debate of the century': what happened when Jordan Peterson debated Slavoj Žižek"
The Guardian.

References

External links

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1976 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian short story writers
Canadian columnists
Canadian social commentators
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian male short story writers
Esquire (magazine) people
University of Toronto alumni
Writers from Edmonton

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