Swan's journalism has appeared in American, British and US publications. She started as education reporter for The Toronto Telegram in l967 in the era of student protest after working as a cub reporter on the Midland Free Press in 1961-1963. She went on to write for the Toronto Star and for television with TVO, the CBC as well as performance pieces in collaboration with others. Susan continues to contribute essays and is commissioned for her journalism in recognition of her keen insights, incisive interviews, and her ongoing activism in the community of writing and social awareness.

A complete bibliography is available by downloading Swan’s Curriculum Vitae in the section About Susan Swan, which includes detailed information in the following categories:

   • Samples of book reviews written by Susan Swan
   • Material written for television and film by Susan Swan
   • Samples of essays and features written by Susan Swan
   • Selected readings and cultural exchanges
   • Talks by Susan Swan


Recent Articles

Locating Myself in the Casanova Craze By Susan Swan, August 2005

INTRODUCTION 

Writing my latest novel about Casanova, I discovered that I wasn't alone in sharing a fascination with the legendary eighteenth-century Venetian lover. This Christmas, a BBC movie starring Peter O'Toole will be shown in the UK on
Dec 21 and 23 2005. A Hollywood movie about Casanova starring Heath Ledger will be released Christmas Day 2005. And in the last five years at least ten other male and female writers in the last five years have published books about Casanova (1725-1798). Why are so many women and men writing and making movies about him now? Do we feel starved for sensual enjoyment in the 21st century? Certainly, we live in a culture where new technologies like email mean that many of us work almost a month more a year than we did in the 1970's. I came to the conclusion that Casanova is the Dionysian figure whose interest in freedom will redeem us in a work-obsessed Apollonian age. The master of self-invention, he enjoyed performing whatever role the situation required and he showed little interest in acquiring power or wealth. Eloquent, self-confident and fashion-conscious, Casanova spent most of his life outwitting social controls of any sort. He appears to have become a symbol of liberty for contemporary writers and readers because he lived as if pleasure and adventure are as worthy of our time as money and fame, believing that the greatest aphrodisiac of all is happiness. read more...

You can't go home again, National Post, June 18, 2005

Love secrets from Casanova, MSN: Match.com website, July, 2005

Essays on Canadian Writing, Issue 76 "Literatures, Cinemas, Cultures"

Sleepers the Globe and Mail, September 11, 2002