Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett (1944-2022) is a founding co-editor of dooneyscafe.com. He's the author of many books, including "Cambodia: A book for people who find television too slow" (1986), "Gender Wars" (1994), "Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown" (2003), "Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and other Non-Globalized People, Places, and Ideas" (2003) and "Human Happiness" (2011).
Cuban Cuisine, or Where—and Why—Soviet-Style Communism Still Doesn’t Work
Brian Fawcett files the site’s first travel review with some unkind words about Cuba’s cuisine
Read MoreProofreading Some Recent War Novels
Brian Fawcett tests the proof-reading of Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers against Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms and is surprised by what he finds
Read MoreSTRANGE PRIORITIES
Brian Fawcett doesn’t like the Globe & Mail’s handling of some recent obituaries..
Read MoreWhy Canadian Novels Aren’t Selling Anymore
Brian Fawcett taps one of his inside sources for an explanation to why the sales of Canadian-authored novels have died.
Read MoreScrewing the Law-Abiding
Brian Fawcett has some criticisms of the City of Toronto’s latest, and deeply flawed, Anti-Smoking Bylaw…
Read MoreChaos Theory and Traffic Control
Brian Fawcett files a column about why things don’t go the way the planners think they’re going to…
Read MorePeering into the Smoke, The Debris, the Mirrors
Brian Fawcett offers his insights on the behavior of the Mass Media after the World Trade Centre Attacks and during the war in Afghanistan
Read MoreGet It Righter, Eh?
Brian Fawcett isn’t happy with the newspapers
Read MoreBulletin from the Entrepreneurial Zone
Brian Fawcett examines an adult education catalogue
Read MoreOn Terrorism and Fundamentalism
Brian Fawcett takes a third run at understanding the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks
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