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Talking Radicalized, rum, writing, self-care and technological...
During my book tour for Radicalized, I recorded a podcast interview (MP4) with the Security Sandbox podcast (formerly Hacker Culture). Host Sean Sun and I carried on a wide-ranging, hacker-centric...
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Interview with My Summer Lair
Another great podcast interview from my Radicalized book tour: this one with My Summer Lair (MP3) where host Sammy Younan and I discussed the book from a Canadian perspective (we recorded in Toronto)...
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As part of our spring 2019 lineup for the eh List series, Cory Doctorow discussed Radicalized, his timely novel on the social, technological, and economic visions of today and what society could be in...
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Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism...
The CBC’s Ryan B Patrick interviewed me about my latest sf book, Radicalized and how the four novellas in it relate to struggles for liberation, racial justice, technological self-determination,...
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Burbank! I’ll be at Dark Delicacies this weekend (then San Diego, UCLA, LA...
Next week is my Southern California nonstop Radicalized and advocacy week: I’m starting with a signing at Burbank’s Dark Delicacies on Sunday at 4PM, alongside Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton, who...
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Occupy Gotham: my essay about the class war at the heart of Batman
The book Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman commemorates the 1000th issue of Batman comics; my contribution is an essay called Occupy Gotham, about the terror of letting a billionaire vigilante...
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Interview with the Left Field podcast about Radicalized and the EU Copyright...
While I was out on tour with Radicalized, I recorded an interview (MP3) with the Left Field podcast (“A couple of socialists with a couple of beers. We talk about Canadian politics and current events...
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San Diego! I’m keynoting the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Public...
Tomorrow night (Thursday, April 11), I’m headlining a free event celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Friends of the San Diego Public Library from 7-9PM: it’s at the Central Library’s Neil Morgan...
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Talking Radicalized with John Scalzi in the LA Times
Ahead of our panel at the LA Times Festival of Books on Sunday, John Scalzi interviewed me about my new book Radicalized for his column in the Times. John tells the story of how I was the first writer...
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Tor’s Ebook Club is giving away copies of my novel WALKAWAY!
Every month, Tor Books’ free Ebook Club gives away a different novel to people who have signed up; this month, the selection is my most recent novel, Walkaway! Sign up between now and the 20th to get...
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Halifax! I’m speaking at Atlseccon on April 24 (then Toronto, Ottawa, Berlin...
I’m coming to Halifax to give the closing keynote on day one of Atlseccon on April 24th: it’s only my second-ever visit to the city and the first time I’ve given a talk there, so I really hope you can...
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Talking Radicalized with the LA Public Library: Trump derangement syndrome,...
The LA Public Library’s Daryl M interviewed me about my new book, Radicalized, specifically, about how my Trump anxiety (created, in part, by the platforms’ relentless use of “engagement” tools to...
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Ottawa! I’ll be at the Writers Festival this Saturday night (then Berlin for...
This Saturday, May 4, at 7:30PM, I’ll be presenting at the Ottawa Writers Festival, talking about my novel Radicalized and how it ties into surveillance, monopoly, refugees, climate change, racism and...
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Talking Radicalized, monopoly and DRM with the Techdirt podcast
I’m on this week’s Techdirt podcast (MP3) talking about my latest book Radicalized — this being Techdirt, the talk quickly moved to DRM, and then to tech policy, monopolism, breaking up the Big Tech...
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Internet Activist Cory Doctorow on How to Change the World
I spoke with Arik Korman from I Heart Radio about #Radicalized, hope, my theory of change, and a better technological future! Cory Doctorow, blogger, journalist, science fiction author, and co-editor...
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I’m teaching on this year’s Writing Excuses Cruise!
I’m one of the guest instructors on this year’s Writing Excuses Cruise, a nine-day intensive writing program on land and at sea, departing from Galveston and putting into port at Cozumel, Georgetown,...
View ArticleOttawa! I’m speaking tomorrow at the Writers Festival (and then Re:publica in...
Tomorrow night at 7:30PM, I’m giving a presentation about my new book, Radicalized, as part of the Ottawa Writers Festival, at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St.) — I haven’t spoken in Ottawa for...
View ArticleA wonderful review for Radicalized in the Winnipeg Free Press
Joel Boyce: The tagline of Cory Doctorow’s latest release is “dystopia is now.” In four novellas, the Canadian ex-pat ably covers a broad swath of pressing social concerns ranging from police racism to...
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How the diverse internet became a monoculture
I appeared on this week’s Canadaland podcast (MP3) with Jesse Brown to talk about the promise of the internet 20 years ago, when it seemed that we were headed for an open, diverse internet with...
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“Steering With the Windshield Wipers”: why nothing we’re doing to fix Big...
My latest Locus column is “Steering with the Windshield Wipers,” and it ties together the growth of Big Tech with the dismantling of antitrust law (which came about thanks to Robert Bork’s bizarre...
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