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).

RIP Patwant Singh, 1925-2009

By Brian Fawcett / 2009 August 29
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Brian Fawcett meets a wise man.

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Spiral Diving at the Toronto Fringe

By Brian Fawcett / 2009 July 9
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Brian Fawcett is front row centre at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

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What Species of Writer

By Brian Fawcett / 2009 March 22
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Brian Fawcett reads a strange and readable book.

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On Barack Obama

By Brian Fawcett / 2009 January 27
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Brian Fawcett on nervously believing in Obama.

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Always Glad to help a Fella on the Make, episode 2

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 September 10
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Brian Fawcett  translates a "call for submissions" from a "new" literary magazine that was unable–or unwilling– to make clear what it really had in mind.

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Why We Write Books

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 July 23
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Brian Fawcett reviews Vivien Lougheed's Understanding Bolivia, A Traveller's History, and finds more than a very useful travel guide.
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Multicultural Real Life Drama #467

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 May 6
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Brian Fawcett records a stitch in our multicultural fabric

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David Miller’s Shame

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 April 29
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Brian Fawcett tries to figure out what's getting so egregiously stinky in David Miller's supposedly sane, sensitive and social democratic Toronto

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Quality Control and Sandbox Awards

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 April 23
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Brian Fawcett takes apart a book of essays. He likes the writer, but doesn't like the essays or how they got into a book.
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Almost Drowning

By Brian Fawcett / 2008 March 28
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Brian Fawcett has a very unsettling thought while trying to keep his head above the surf in Mexico.
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