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. He is the culture editor at the Toronto Standard and a freelance writer who has contributed to The Globe and Mail, the National Post, The Comics Journal, Social Text, Popdust and the Awl. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he spoke at the EMP Pop Conference. 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.
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.
I like your paintings, Margaux.
O, Thank you so much, Margaux. It’s always such a surprise that anyone at all even sees them, so I appreciate you mentioning my work. Kate