Back to the World is a group blog about the works of art and culture that happen to be on our minds. It’s made in Toronto by Chris Randle, Margaux Williamson and Carl Wilson, with occasional guests.
Chris Randle is from Toronto. His writing about music, comics and a few other things has appeared in Eye Weekly, The Globe and Mail, Comics Comics and elsewhere; he presented his paper “Curtis Jackson and the Jeweled Skull” at the 2010 Pop Conference in Seattle. He has a supporting role of sorts as the only actual teenager in Margaux’s movie Teenager Hamlet. His Tumblr is Beau Travail and his Twitter is @randlechris. In November he graduated from the University of Toronto. What will happen next is unclear.
Margaux Williamson was born in Pittsburgh and lives in Toronto. She’s exhibited paintings in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles and premiered her first movie project at the Toronto International Film Festival. A variation on that project, a DVD called Teenager Hamlet, was distributed in Canada in the fall of 2010 and the U.S. in 2011. Her work has been featured by The National Post, Toronto’s Eye Weekly, The New York Times, The Artfag, Canadian Art Magazine, among others. In 2010 she created the blog Movie Is My Favourite Word where she started writing about movies.
Carl Wilson was born in Toronto, left and lived in Brantford, Montreal and New York, and has been back for some time. He is the author of Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Continuum Books, 33 1/3 series), a short book about aesthetic conflict and Celine Dion. He is an editor in the Focus section of The Globe and Mail, where he is a former columnist, and has written for The New York Times, Slate, Pitchfork, Blender, Toronto Life and other publications. He frequently speaks about music and other subjects in public. For much of the ’00s his website ZOILUS was a popular place to discuss music in Toronto and beyond, but it’s quieter there now.
