Rachel Matlow
@RachelMatlow
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Freelance audio journalist. Currently Senior Producer @wonderymedia. Formerly @cbcradio. Author of DEAD MOM WALKING @PenguinCanada. They/them/young gentleman.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2009
Books we're reading and loving this week: medical memoir Dead Mom Walking by @RachelMatlow and Patricia Finney's A Lady of Earth & Sunshine https://t.co/sZkyWn4Xue
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theglobeandmail.com
Globe and Mail staffers and readers share what books they’re reading
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This year's @ThirdCoastFest winners & finalists produced incredible work!! It got us thinking about winners from years ago. So @soundschoolpod dug up a fantastic interview w/ @RachelMatlow who won "Best New Producer" in 2016 for this touching story. 🎧📻. https://t.co/mW26adrqj9
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I cannot wait for this!
See you on the ice. ⛸ The Crave Original series, #IHaveNothing, starring Carolyn Taylor, follows her quest to choreograph the perfect full-length pairs figure skating routine to Whitney Houston’s iconic song, “I Have Nothing.” Streaming Saturday September 23 on Crave.
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Elaine got a book, Teddy gets a @nytimes Modern Love essay!
nytimes.com
As my father lost his memory, he began to regard my gender as increasingly fluid.
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Farewell to Teddy! He was an incredible dad, friend, judge, and all around lovable guy. https://t.co/oTaSLjZEFg
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Happy 4 year testosterone "manniversary" to me. Also, happy birthday Anne Frank!
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"Rachel describes Josh as a wild, unhappy teenager who dropped out of high school and then travelled, including ending up at, of all things, a Sufi commune" #votematlow
thelocal.to
Once an ardent centrist, the midtown councillor has tacked a course to the left in recent years and is now running as progressive truth-teller. Can a politician change? Can a city?
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Thanks Erin!
Just finished Dead Mom Walking by @RachelMatlow. An emotional rollercoaster of a read. I really enjoyed it.
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Wow, this is an awesome honour. I wish I could've met Edna!
Authors @RachelMatlow, Vicki Laveau-Harvie and @jessicajlee have been shortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Laurier is the only university in Canada to bestow a nationally recognized literary award. Learn more: https://t.co/yvoUfo1AOv
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Recently I intvw'd @TVGavin abt his new @cbcpodcasts LET'S NOT BE KIDDING, abt his mother's Alzheimer's. Listen to the podcast this Mother's Day Wknd: it's moving, funny, instructive – one of the most powerful things in ANY genre I'll take in this year.
cbc.ca
If laughter really was the best medicine, Gavin Crawford would have cured his mother of Alzheimer’s disease. As a son, his mother’s dementia has been devastating. As a comedian though… it’s been sort...
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Join #TeamMatlow to help build a city that works. A better Toronto is possible. https://t.co/EVsJzItUS4
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It’s time to ‘get real’ with Toronto residents. Why Josh Matlow is considering a run for mayor
thestar.com
Veteran city councillor confirms he is ‘strongly exploring’ a bid to run in the June 26 byelection to replace John Tory
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"It's so funny, which is so weird because it's a book about cancer" -Tegan (Thank you @teganandsara for reading my book THREE times, even though the ending never changes. I don't want to give it away..but it's in the title)
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I was drawn to this title (for obvious reasons). Check out @RachelMatlow's "Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters." https://t.co/cKgcDkcymt
themortalatheist.com
“Dead Mom Walking” is a memoir, 10% a story of how Rachel Matlow’s Mom (Elaine) died from cancer, 90% a story of how they lived (in spite of cancer, despite cancer, in denial of cancer… but mostly...
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I once produced an interview with Nora Ephron and told her that my mom still made her salad dressing (the only recipe she ever used). Nora replied, "It's not a bad legacy to have."
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When she was in her 40s, @RachelMatlow’s mom Elaine got into alternative forms of healing. But after a cancer diagnosis, she refused a surgery that could’ve saved her, which Rachel had a hard time understanding. This week, they remember their mom. 🎧: https://t.co/bLuFXQ8W2W
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In the final weeks of @RachelMatlow’s mom’s life, Rachel began recording their conversations. And after she died, Rachel turned a version of their conversations into a @thirdcoastfest award-winning audio piece. Listen to an excerpt and more here: https://t.co/bLuFXQ8W2W
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Check out today's episode of @deathsexmoney featuring an interview with one of my all-time favourite people @RachelMatlow about their real life dramedy documented in one of my all-time favourite books, Dead Mom Walking
penguinrandomhouse.ca
NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE A whip-smart and darkly funny memoir about an unconventional family, the limits of wellness fads, and the mother of all catast...
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