Writer & Editor & Everything Else

Hi, I’m Tanner.

I wanted to put a face to Signs of Wear, so you know who to be annoyed with when I get a date wrong or flub a fiddly piece of lore that cropped up in one out-of-print book from the late nineties.

Writing from Toronto, Canada, I’m a longtime Magic player, teacher, and former journalist fascinated with the cards that will never be sought out by collectors or fetch a high price at an auction.

Art

Close readings of paintings, prints and objects — what they reward on second and third looks.

Fiction

Essays on novels and short stories — voice, form and the sentences that stay with you.

Card Stock

On scuffs, patina, marginalia — the material life of things that have been read and handled.