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

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 April 4
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Brian Fawcett files the site’s first travel review with some unkind words about Cuba’s cuisine

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Proofreading Some Recent War Novels

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 April 2
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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

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STRANGE PRIORITIES

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 February 21
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Brian Fawcett doesn’t like the Globe & Mail’s handling of some recent obituaries..

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Why Canadian Novels Aren’t Selling Anymore

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 February 6
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Brian Fawcett taps one of his inside sources for an explanation to why the sales of Canadian-authored novels have died.

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Screwing the Law-Abiding

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 February 1
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Brian Fawcett has some criticisms of the City of Toronto’s latest, and deeply flawed, Anti-Smoking Bylaw…

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Chaos Theory and Traffic Control

By Brian Fawcett / 2002 January 24
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Brian Fawcett files a column about why things don’t go the way the planners think they’re going to…

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Peering into the Smoke, The Debris, the Mirrors

By Brian Fawcett / 2001 November 15
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Brian Fawcett offers his insights on the behavior of the Mass Media after the World Trade Centre Attacks and during the war in Afghanistan

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Get It Righter, Eh?

By Brian Fawcett / 2001 November 2
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Brian Fawcett isn’t happy with the newspapers

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Bulletin from the Entrepreneurial Zone

By Brian Fawcett / 2001 October 19
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Brian Fawcett examines an adult education catalogue

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On Terrorism and Fundamentalism

By Brian Fawcett / 2001 October 12
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Brian Fawcett takes a third run at understanding the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks

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