TRAVEL
Dika Lam
Editor, Writer, Publishing Professional
United States
I'm an award-winning creative writer, travel editor, and copy editor with a background in both print and digital production.
United States
I'm an award-winning creative writer, travel editor, and copy editor with a background in both print and digital production.
TRAVEL
When BBC Radio proclaimed Toronto the world's most diverse city in 2016, it was a nod to the fact that over half of its approximately three million residents were born outside Canada.
By Dika Lam In Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eye, a Toronto native reflects on the changing nature of her formerly staid hometown: "Once it was fashionable to say how dull it was. First prize a week in Toronto, second prize two weeks in Toronto."
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A guide to health-conscious travel in the town that invented the brownie
LITERARY
"These voices, diverse and almost eerily resonant, offer us a refreshing breath of womanhood-untamed, ungroomed, and unglossed."-ELLE And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week. And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I'm Chinese, and Sherman Alexie Chose Me As a writer, have I ever benefited from being Chinese? By now, every wordsmith with wi-fi has heard about the Best American Poetry scandal.
I chatted with Jennifer Egan the day after a tornado touched down not far from the Pulitzer Prize–winner's Brooklyn neighborhood.
When I began this column, one of my goals was to shine a flashlight on short stories, the neglected baby sister of the fiction world. But when I sent out an APB last year for under-the-radar story collections, and the writer Steve Almond recommended "Tony" Doerr's latest, I balked.