Brian Sholis
Brian Sholis is a Chicagoan based in Toronto, a husband, father, and autodidact with a deep passion for independent culture and community, traced back to his early interests in punk rock music and online bulletin boards. He has spent two decades as a writer, editor, museum curator, and nonprofit director in contemporary art and photography. Currently, he serves as the editorial director of Frontier, a design office in Toronto, where he runs Frontier Magazine, an ideas-focused weekly newsletter and hosts its podcast. His work advocates for fairness and creative flourishing through stories from the arts, the built environment, tech, and education.
Recommendations
This book convincingly describes power plants and telecommunications systems as “care at scale,” weaves in autobiography and first-person reportage, and theorizes an exciting energy-abundant future.
Currently being read and enjoyed by the author of the newsletter.
Another book currently being read and enjoyed.
Eagerly awaited by the author and expected to be found on Toronto indie-bookstore shelves.
New collection by Arthur Krystal that is on the nightstand of the newsletter's author.
Praised as a model of ambitious, idea-driven autobiographical writing.
Editions
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