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Biography & Autobiography Literary

An Aesthetic Underground

A Literary Memoir

by (author) John Metcalf

Publisher
Biblioasis
Initial publish date
Sep 2014
Category
Literary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887621215
    Publish Date
    Mar 2003
    List Price
    $36.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927428955
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $19.95

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The embattled nonpareil of Canadian fiction. The Argus-eyed editor. The magisterial prose stylist and indefatigable correspondent; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the idealist, the iconoclast, and the legend. Join John Metcalf as he descends into the literary underground he laboured so tirelessly to establish, and whose denizens - from Alice Munro to Mavis Gallant - often emerged as the greatest writers of their time.

About the author

John Metcalf is one of Canada's most distinguished literary editors, writers, critics, and anthologists. He has helped shape the sensibility of an entire group of emerging writers through his work at the Porcupine's Quill press. Known for his strong views about literary standards, Metcalf has nurtured some of our most essential writers, including Leon Rooke, Russel Smith, Terry Griggs, Caroline Adderson, Annabel Lyon, Andrew Pyper, Steven Heighton, Jane Urquhart, Elise Levine, Clarke Blaise, Michael Winter, and Mary Swan, among dozens of other fine authors.John Metcalf is the Senior Editor of Porcupine's Quill. An accomplished writer, editor, and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction including "Adult Entertainment, The Lady Who Sold Furniture", and "Kicking Against the Pricks: Essays".

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