An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

by John Metcalf

Overview

"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."—Alice Munro

The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781927428962
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Publication date:	10/20/2014
Series:	Biblioasis Renditions Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	662 KB

About the Author

John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. A scintillating writer, a magisterial editor, and a noted anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Standing Stones: Selected Stories, Adult Entertainment, Going Down Slow and Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.

Table of Contents

A Vignette
The Curator
Mr. White and Bernard Halliday
Alma Mater
A Terrifying Legacy
The Years with Ross
The Montreal Story Tellers
Conduct Unbecoming
Writer-in-Residence
Resurrection
Increasingly Bad Vibes
Steering the Craft
Winning the War
Acts of Kindness and of Love
An Eager Eye
The Tanks Campaign
Lego
A Long Sentence: The Ottawa Years
An Aesthetic Underground
L’Envoi
Bibliography
Acknowledgements