Canadian Man Wins Canadian Prize

Sean Michaels, the author of Us Conductors, won the Giller Prize last night; and that’s very nice news!! It’s a novel based on the Russian scientist Lev Termen, the inventor of the theremin, which is a weird thing I only just found out about when I found out about the book. Read more books about weird inventions, that’s my motto. You can read an excerpt here.

In other news, The Awl is down for “maintenance,” whatever that means, so I’m finally free to turn The Hairpin into the all-Canadian news site I always wanted it to be.