Over the course of the winter 2010 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our participating Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success!
Today we present the eleventh of our twelve writer interviews — with the legendary Larry Frolick!
Larry attended Victoria College, graduated in anthropology and law, and became a field journalist exploring globalization in the Middle East, Asia and Central America. He is the author of four books including Bastard Eden / Our Chernobyl (Portland, 2008), a collaboration with photographer Don Weber on post-atomic life in Ukraine. His long-form documentary essays include: “Last Days of Suburbia” (Walrus); “Police Work in an Ex-Police State” (The Believer); “Making Over Ms. Canada” (Chatelaine); and “Kebabistan” (Descant), on Day 1 of the Iraq War. His latest project is a social history of Modernism in Canada and its lost dream of self-transformation. His nonfiction work has won four National Magazine Awards including the Alexander Ross Award; and the Lange-Taylor Prize (USA) with D. Weber, the first Canadian winners. He lives on a peach farm with his family in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Larry Frolick is the S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence for St. Patrick.
Our Q & A with Larry Frolick… after the jump!