Book Publishing, Bookselling, George Bowering, and the new censorship

By Brian Fawcett | 2021 January 13

        I read George Bowering’s latest book, Writing and Reading (New Star, Vancouver, 2019), in a single sitting, which was unique in my experience of reading him. Bowering can be demanding and occasionally hermetic, and therefore requires intense concentration. But Writing and Reading was like having a conversation with George at a…

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After the Circus

By Max Fawcett | 2010 March 6

The Paralympic games may be yet to come, but the Olympic circus has already packed up and left town. In its wake, Max Fawcett takes a look at the city it changed, and what those changes mean.

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