Stephen Marche (born 1976) is a Canadian author of sorts. In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto.
He currently writes a monthly column for Esquire, "A Thousand Words about Our Culture". In 2011, this column was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary.[1]
On October 15, 2010, during election campaign season, the Toronto Globe and Mail published online a commentary by Marche throughout which he effusively taunted a candidate for mayor of Toronto for the man's obesity.[2] For example, the opening line was "The mounds of fat that encircle" the man's "body like great deflated tires of defeat are truly unprecedented in Canadian politics". Within a day, after a public outcry that the column was too demeaning, it was pulled from the Globe and Mail's Website.[3]
Marche's novel, Raymond and Hannah, was published in 2005. An anthology of short stories linked by a common plot element, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea (2007), was described by a professional peer thusly: it "may be the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas".[4]