Patrick Pittman

Buckslip started life as a regular, pretty simple email. It’s evolved into a more thorough, kind of very personal publication, in which a small gang of us wander the landscape that we’re all living through together, and weave a few sensemaking threads from what we find. Interviews, analysis, digressions, anxiety.

Arcade is a magazine and email we publish at No Media Co on behalf of Koffler Arts. Launched in late 2023, it has quietly grown into what I might humbly suggest is one of the best homes for art and culture writing in Canada. I co-edit and run this end to end, along with Chris Frey and Tatum Dooley.

I was the co-editor of The Alpine Review, which we liked to call a slow magazine for turbulent times. It was a tough creature to describe, but my favourite attempt is in Ruth Jamieson’s excellent book Print is Dead, Long Live Print, where she describes it as “The Economist’s cooler, better dressed sister.” magCulture called it "an incredible magazine – fascinating in its scope and breadth of coverage.

Over 400 or so annual-ish pages, we had a lot of fun, with a lot of great writers, traversing time and space and playing with the big questions of what and why we are, who we’ve been and who we will be.

I was the editor of the quar­terly Australian mag­a­zine Dumbo Feather, a cult favourite mag­a­zine about extra­or­di­nary ideas and the (generally not famous) peo­ple behind them. It was a mag­a­zine that’s beau­ti­ful and rad­i­cal in form and con­tent, largely based around long (really long) inter­views, beau­ti­ful pho­tog­ra­phy, and diver­sions inspired by the fea­tured con­ver­sa­tions. There was no other magazine like it then, and there still isn’t.