About

sans everything is a blog created and written by four Canadian writers:
John Haffner, Jeet Heer, A. M. Lamey, and Ian Garrick Mason.

Bios

John Haffner works in strategic planning in the energy industry, with a background in law and the humanities. He has worked for a global strategy consultancy, two national policy think tanks, and a senior federal politician. He has written for The Kyoto Journal and is contributing a chapter to a forthcoming anthology on philosophy and the martial arts. His book on Japan and globalization is forthcoming in 2008.

Jeet Heer is writing a doctoral thesis on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie at York University (Toronto). He is co-editor, with Kent Worcester, of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). With Chris Ware and Chris Oliveros, he is editing a series of volumes reprinting Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, three volumes of which have been published by Drawn and Quarterly under the umbrella title Walt and Skeezix. He is also the editor of Clare Brigg’s Oh Skin-nay and is writing the introductions to a multi-volume series reprinting George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. His essays have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, the Literary Review of Canada, the Boston Globe, The (London) Guardian, Slate.com, and many other publications.

A. M. Lamey is a National Magazine Award winner and a former books editor and columnist for the National Post. He has written for The New Republic, the TLS and CBC Radio’s Ideas program.

Ian Garrick Mason is a writer on politics and culture whose work has appeared in The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Globe & Mail, among other publications. From 1994 to 1998, he was the editor of Gravitas, a Canadian magazine of politics, culture, economics, and science; from 1998 to 2004, he was a consultant and executive at Accenture, a global management and technology consulting firm. In addition to contributing to sans everything, Ian writes the blog Archipelagoes; his previously published essays and reviews can be found here.