Aesthetic Underground, An
A Literary Memoir
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Description
The embattled nonpareil of Canadian fiction. The Argus-eyed editor. The magisterial prose stylist and indefatigable correspondent; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the idealist, the iconoclast, and the legend. Join John Metcalf as he descends into the literary underground he laboured so tirelessly to establish, and whose denizens - from Alice Munro to Mavis Gallant - often emerged as the greatest writers of their time.
About this 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.
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