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Writing Craft: Lessons Learned from Architecture
I worked on a novel project some years back that involved doing a lot of research into architecture. I interview architects trying to pick up ideas about how they spoke and thought. I walked around downtown Vancouver and central London with different architects trying to get a sense of how they see. It was all…
Read MoreHow to Cook Very Difficult Food
For Cooking Light Magazine It was while I was attempting to make “soil” that it occurred to me that my experiment with very difficult dinners might drive me insane. This is edible soil, from the cookbook by René Redzepi, chef at the world’s most buzzy restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen. Noma’s soil is sprinkled on a…
Read MoreWriting Craft: A Taxonomy of Unreliable Characters
I get asked about unreliable characters a lot, a device that’s been used extensively in storytelling through the ages. Twentieth century novels like Lolita, Fight Club and Life of Pi come to mind. Maybe my students are extra interested in unreliability these days because of what’s happening in politics. I can’t say for sure. But…
Read MoreMartha Stewart Interviews Timothy Taylor about Stanley Park
The Rule of Stephens
The significance of being a survivor, in the case of Air France Flight 801, for a long time lay
Read MoreFoodville
In this nose-to-tail culinary confessional, the acclaimed novelist behind the bestseller Stanley Park
Read MoreThe Blue Light Project
In a very near future that is both familiar and troubling, three lives intersect in a time of crisis
Read MoreStanley Park
Aspiring food artiste Jeremy Papier, in Timothy Taylor’s debut novel
Read MoreStory House
Graham and Elliot Gordon are half-brothers, six months apart,
Read MoreSilent Cruise and Other Stories
Timothy Taylor’s first collection of short fiction, is a long, lush
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