The Financial Times has an interview with Miguel Syjuco, one of the many young people who joined The Gazette for a summer and then left for greener pastures (becoming an award-winning novelist). There he talks about the various cities he’s lived in and what makes them cool. (via mtlweblog)

The Gazette also interviewed Syjuco this week, about the book that earned him a Man Asian Literary Prize award. The National Post interviewed Syjuco in November, back when he won the award.

Syjuco takes part in a panel at the Blue Metropolis festival this week. Details are at the end of the Gazette story.

(Hey Miguel, you don’t per chance need an agent, do you?)