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).
The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 4): Concentration, and Testicles
Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 3): Females and Males
Brian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 2): Stress, Distress, and the Sussex Downs
Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 1): Luck, Generosity and the Rules
Brian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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The trouble with Stanley Tucci’s Taste (and the right way to make tomato sauce)
Brian Fawcett on how to make Euclid Avenue Tomato Sauce. Everything you need to know to get it right.
Read MoreRIP Gerard F. Farry
In mid-January of this year, 2021, Gerard Farry died in Vancouver at the age of 92. He wasn’t the sort of man who’d naturally be familiar to the readers of this website; he had been the director of urban planning for Greater Vancouver during the 1970s and 1980s, which was the heyday of urban master…
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The (Good) Trouble With David Shields
David Shields’ The Trouble with Men. It ain’t self-help, says Brian Fawcett.
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A moment With Dostoyevsky, James Wood, and an obscure Hungarian Writer
Brian Fawcett recalls something he discovers about how Dostoyevsky wrote dialogue that leads him to take a swing at James Wood, (the critic, not the actor)
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Norm Sibum and the Poetry of “Flaneurism”
Brian Fawcett reads Norm Sibum’s new volume of verse. He thinks Sibum is a skilled poet, but….
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