Desire Lines
Dylan ReidHere’s my brief every two months miscellany of sneak peeks, tidbits, and thoughts about cities, walking, history, editing, and whatever else I’ve been up to.
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Fragmentary insights
Fall 2025
It’s been kind of an intense autumn, but I am getting my newsletter in just under the seasonal wire. I’ve accumulated a lot of notes since the last one, so I hope readers will have patience – each section is small, rather like th...
On the water
Summer 2025
I seem to be slipping into a seasonal rhythm for this newsletter – which will perhaps grant a little more flexibility. This issue is fairly seasonal, in fact – featuring Toronto’s waterfront, always at its most popular in summe...
Back to Life
Spring 2025
Life got in the way of my newsletter again, so this one is seasonal rather than month-based. It’s been an intense few months both in terms of family support and in terms of work, but I wanted to share some recent and upcoming n...
Messy Cities
December 2024–January 2025
A long-standing project – one that helped inspire this newsletter – is coming to fruition! Here’s the story of the origin of the new book about messy urbanism that I co-edited – coming soon to a bookstore near yo...
Fiction and Age
October (part)-November 2024
Is my reading more fiction an effort to recapture that spirit of deep immersion in stories that I remember from my youth? It’s not entirely working, but that in itself gives rise to my musing this month. And a...
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Executive editor of Spacing magazine, co-founder of Walk Toronto, freelance copyeditor, fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto.
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