John Metcalf, as I’ve said more than once, is both a great writer and a great editor. On my bookshelves I have scores of novels and short story collections edited by Metcalf, by writers such as Russell Smith, K.D. Miller and Annabel Lyon. These books maintain a level of quality unmatched in modern publishing: the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Metcalf is back
Posted in Literature, tagged John Metcalf on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Marchand’s Reading Life
Posted in Literature, tagged Philip Marchand on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The National Post, formerly my employer and still an occasional publishing outlet for my stray essays, is rather like a Dickensian heroine: abandoned by a feckless father (a jailed genteel social climber no less, rather like Little Dorrit’s dad) the paper lives an orphan’s precarious existence, fending off creditors, the poorhouse, and even death itself. [...]
Talking about Crumb & God
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Robert Crumb on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated is one of the most exciting books of the year. I reviewed the volume for Bookforum, which can be found here. On the Inkstuds radio program, I engaged in an extended conversation on the book with Paul Stanwood, an English professor at the University of British Columbia. You can [...]
