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In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal, instructive, and amusing.

Brian Busby's 'The Dusty Bookcase' explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety.

A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Proust.

For decades Bruce Jay Friedman has charmed the glitziest industries of American golden-age culture. He's been in publishing. He's been in theater. He's been in film.

In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smalle

Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short story writers in the last 50 years.

John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition.

Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity.

Quarante ans plus tard, que reste-t-il à dire sur Alien?

"Il était essentiel que j'écrive ce livre : une manière d'accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la violence par l'art." Pour la première fois, Salman Rushdi

Dans Visions robotiques et extraterrestres.

Le trash est une esthétique encore très peu étudiée en littérature : encore trop mal aimée et mal comprise, elle serait de mauvais goût et indigne d'analyse.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams—"a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit)—"piercing, intimate" (Time Magazi

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