Bert Archer

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Bert Archer (born 1968) is a Canadian journalist, essayist and critic.

Archer was born in Montreal and lived in Calgary and Vancouver before attending St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia, the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was elected editor in chief of his college's arts journal, The Grammateion in his second undergraduate year, and as editor-in-chief of The Mike, the college newspaper, a year later. The year after that, he was elected president of the Ontario region of the Canadian University Press, North America's oldest national student organization.

While still in school he worked as an assistant to editor David Colbert at Harper & Collins Canada. In 1994, he was hired as an editorial assistant by Quill & Quire, Canada's national book trade magazine. Two years later, as review editor, Archer was pressured to resign after writing an essay in the Financial Post which some considered derogatory to certain elements in the Canadian publishing industry, specifically, the small presses.[1] He was subsequently hired as a columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation newspaper, to review books published by small Canadian publishers.

Since then, Archer has been an editor at NOW and Eye Weekly, Toronto's two weekly alternative arts magazines, as well as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. As of 2008, he is a columnist for Toronto Life magazine and writes for the Globe and Mail.

He is the author of The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality), published in Canada[2] in 1999, in the US[3] in 2002 and the UK[4] in 2004. Archer has contributed chapters to two books: "Why Boys Are Better Than Girls" for What I Meant to Say (2006)[5] and Creating a Toronto of the Imagination for uTOpia (2006).[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Book editor resigns over controversy", Globe and Mail, Nov. 15, 1996.
  2. ^ Author Spotlight: Bert Archer. Random House. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
  3. ^ Books: Bert Archer. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
  4. ^ Bert Archer. Vision Paperbacks. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
  5. ^ Thomas Allen: What I Meant to Say. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
  6. ^ uTOpia. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
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