Bruce Serafin
Bruce Serafin lived and wrote beautifully about Vancouver until he died in June 2007. His first book, Colin's Big Thing, was published in 2004. A posthumus collection of essays, Stardust was published in October 2007 by New Star.
Days of Heaven – I
Among the cowboy hills of Ashcroft, BC, Bruce Serafin reads Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West
The Grave at Ashcroft – II
Bruce Serafin concludes a chain of thought that started at the Glenbow Museum in 1990.
The Grave at Ashcroft – I
After a trip to the Glenbow Museum, Bruce Serafin is forced to reevaluate the world he grew up in.
Long Tall Sally
Bruce Serafin reads Don DeLillo’s masterpiece and wonders what a Canadian book of similar scope would sound like. (He has some ideas.)
A Chest of Drawers – II
Bruce Serafin concludes his celebration of Michel Tremblay
A Chest of Drawers – I
Bruce Serafin celebrates Quebec’s – and Canada’s – greatest writer
Stardust
Bruce Serafin remembers his crush on Leonard Cohen
Wearing a Mask
Bruce Serafin records his debt to a Parisian intellectual
Our Racist Poet
Bruce Serafin brings back`Habitant’ poet William Henry Drummond from the past, and discovers that he’s neither dead nor irrelevant