The memoir of Canadian author, editor, critic, and anthologist, John Metcalf. Metcalf is well acquainted with many well-known Canadian authors and has sharp opinions about the state of Canadian literary publishing.
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Negen verhalen over Indische immigranten en hun nakomelingen in Noord-Amerika.
An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.
"The Meagre Tarmac" is master storywriter Clark Blaise's first new collection of short fiction in nearly two decades. A suite of linked stories about the trials and tribulations of several generations of Indo Americans, "The Meagre Tarmac" reminds readers why Blaise is one of th…
From his childhood in rural Ontario to his all-but-accidental entrance into the antiquarian book trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility
A floating world --The road I'd later take --A giraffe in Edinburgh zoo --The pope of long acre --A paragon of seedy exactitude --Hawks and magpies --The loneliness of the collector --The testament of Charlotte B. --The disembowelling of phantoms --Black mischief and subterfuge …
"A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves--and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rur…
"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified."--LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering o…
Canadian novelist Ray Robertson discusses the lives and careers of thirteen musicians he admires.
Canadian novelist Ray Robertson discusses the lives and careers of thirteen musicians he admires.