Nick Zarzycki
Nick Zarzycki is a writer and journalist based in Toronto, Canada. His work traverses a wide range of subjects including professional tennis, the hospitality industry and the history of game design, and has appeared in publications like Defector, Deadspin, Toronto Life, The Washington Post, Maclean’s and Vancouver Magazine. His satirical web and social media projects–including a humour magazine he started in university, a New York Times Twitter parody account and a satirical mining company–have been viewed by millions of people and profiled by the A.V. Club, Mashable and The Globe and Mail.
Journalism
The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong Defector
The Banana Has What It Takes To Defeat Gatorade Deadspin
What’s the Deal With Just for Laughs: Gags? National Post
Why Don’t You Ding-Dongs Come To The Net? Deadspin
I Finally Understand Why You Ding Dongs Won’t Come To The Net Defector
Why Do Athletes Scream? Deadspin
Press
Longform Profiles Interview #14: Nick Zarzycki Longform Profiles
I Logged On to a Mining Ring of Fire Wag the Doug
Follow along on Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ with this fiction podcast Mashable
Gawken is here to fill the Gawker void, minus the getting sued A.V. Club
The Syrup Trap: Filling the satire market’s Canada-sized hole The Globe and Mail
Books
The Canadaland Guide to Canada with Jesse Brown and Vicky Mochama (Touchstone, 2017)
Contact
nickzarz <‘at’> gmail <‘dot’> com