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Hal Niedzviecki

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Born

in Brockville, Ontario, Canada

Website

http://www.smellit.ca/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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January 2008

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Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges
preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. Hal works in both the fiction and nonfiction genres. He is the author
of books including, in fiction, the novel Ditch, and his latest novel The Program. In nonfiction, his most recent work is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (www.peepdiaries.com). He is the
current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and
the independent arts ( www.brokenpencil.com). He edited the magazine from 1995 to
2002. Hal’s writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across North
America including the Utne Reader, ...more

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Average rating: 3.4 · 759 ratings · 142 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity 3.29 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors 3.48 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened 3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Expert 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Program liked it 3.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ditch 2.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Book of Pop Culture: A How-to Guide for Young Artists by Hal Niedzviecki (Goodreads Author), Marc Ngui (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture

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“Kids growing up in today’s generation are constantly documenting their experience. It’s different—how does that change their sense of self when everything becomes a story that you are telling?”
― Hal Niedzviecki, Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future

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