About Michael Rowe

Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa, and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. He is an award-winning journalist and essayist, and the author of the nonfiction collections Looking for Brothers and Other Men's Sons, and the novel Enter, Night. He is married and lives in Toronto.

The Great Chick-fil-A Snake Oil “Faith” Hustle

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Michael Rowe believes that even if Dan Cathy were a medieval peddler selling slivers of the One True Cross, he couldn’t be more of a fraud than he is in this instance.

Ghosts

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“My girlfriend, the incredibly hot born-again Christian to whom I lost my virginity, asked me if you were an actual fag, or if you just acted like one.” By Michael Rowe