Posts Tagged ‘Brian Fawcett’
The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 9): Clear Instructions
Brian Fawcett on the importance of clear instructions, the use of “hogwash,” and the art of playing ping pong in Ch. 9 of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”
Read MoreReality Hunger: A Manifesto / c / books for people who find television too slow
“Painting isn’t dead. The novel isn’t dead. They just aren’t as central to the culture as they once were,” says David Shields in “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.” In an era where we need books for people who find television too slow, where does writing go from here?
Read MoreThe Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 8): Writers, and Boars
An 18-year-old Canadian with writerly ambitions, working on his uncle and aunt’s Sussex pig farm, gets to meet the butler of famed English literary critic, Cyril Connelly. Ch. 8 of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”
Read MoreThe 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.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreJoined at the Mind: Brian Fawcett (1944-2022)
Brian Fawcett wrote books for people who find television too slow. Stan Persky remembers a writer who never forgot his hometown, and with whom he shared a “joint mind.”
Read MoreIs There an Answer to Cultural Appropriation?
John Harris reviews a little known pamphlet from a little known press about a deceptively large subject.
Read MoreReal World Happiness
Norbert Ruebsaat’s reflections on families, happiness and Brian Fawcett.
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