
An Aesthetic Underground
A Literary Memoir
John Metcalf(Author)
Biblioasis (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-927428-95-5 (ISBN)
Description
"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."-Alice Munro The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Emeryville
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-927428-95-5 (9781927428955)
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John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. A scintillating writer, a magisterial editor, and a noted anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Standing Stones: Selected Stories, Adult Entertainment, Going Down Slow and Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.
Content
A Vignette
The Curator
Mr. White and Bernard Halliday
Alma Mater
A Terrifying Legacy
The Years with Ross
The Montreal Story Tellers
Conduct Unbecoming
Writer-in-Residence
Resurrection
Increasingly Bad Vibes
Steering the Craft
Winning the War
Acts of Kindness and of Love
An Eager Eye
The Tanks Campaign
Lego
A Long Sentence: The Ottawa Years
An Aesthetic Underground
L'Envoi
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
The Curator
Mr. White and Bernard Halliday
Alma Mater
A Terrifying Legacy
The Years with Ross
The Montreal Story Tellers
Conduct Unbecoming
Writer-in-Residence
Resurrection
Increasingly Bad Vibes
Steering the Craft
Winning the War
Acts of Kindness and of Love
An Eager Eye
The Tanks Campaign
Lego
A Long Sentence: The Ottawa Years
An Aesthetic Underground
L'Envoi
Bibliography
Acknowledgements