The New Brick Reader
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2013
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781770894082
- Publish Date
- Nov 2013
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770894099
- Publish Date
- Nov 2013
- List Price
- $16.95
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Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal.
Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world’s best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke.
This anthology, which collects some of the very best work to appear in Brick over the last twenty-two years, is an essential collection of some of the finest writers at work today including, John Berger, Fanny Howe, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Hay, Colm Tóibín, A.L. Kennedy, Alistair McLeod, Tim Lilburn, Jane Rule and Jeffrey Eugenides to name but a few.
Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and unusual musings, The New Brick Reader is the perfect introduction for those new to Brick and an ideal treasury for the magazine’s many fans.
Contributors include Rob Fyfe, Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje (interview with Malouf), Annie Proulx, Brand, Creeley, Rushdie, CD Wright, Atwood, Gibson, Russell, Banks (what I'd be if not a writer), Peter Harcourt, Jane Rule, James Wood (interviews W G Sebald), Helen Garner, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Helm, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roo Borson, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Lilburn, Robert Creeley, Michelle Orange, Fanny Howe, A. L. Kennedy, Semi Chellas, Don DeLillo, Alistair Bland, Dionne Brand, Esta Spalding (interviews David Sedaris), John Berger, Clark Blaise, Jim Harrison, Clayton Ruby, Robert Hass, George Toles, Stephan Bureau (interview with Mavis Gallant), Roberto Bolano & Forrest Gander, Leon Edel (Craig Howes), Paule Anglim (interview with Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia), Colm Toibin, Don Paterson, Albert Nussbaum, W.S. Merwin, Sean Michaels, Charles Foran, Colum McCann & R. Chandran Madhu, Melora Wolff, and Eleanor Wachtel (with Anne Carson).
About the author
Tara Quinn is a writer and contributing editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. She has worked on the Royal Conservatory's “Music in Exile” series with the ARC Ensemble and has written for This magazine, Ricepaper, rabble.ca, and Brick. She lives in Toronto.
Excerpt: The New Brick Reader (edited by Tara Quinn)
Contributors:
Rob Fyfe
Alistair Macleod
Michael Ondaatje (interview with Malouf)
Annie Proulx, Brand, Creeley, Rushdie, CD Wright, Atwood, Gibson,
Russell
Banks (what I'd be if not a writer)
Peter Harcourt
Jane Rule
James Wood (interviews W G Sebald)
Helen Garner
Elizabeth Hay
Michael Helm
Jeffrey Eugenides
Roo Borson
Jonathan Lethem
Tim Lilburn
Robert Creeley
Michelle Orange
Fanny Howe
A. L. Kennedy
Semi Chellas
Don DeLillo
Alistair Bland
Dionne Brand
Esta Spalding (interviews David Sedaris)
John Berger
Clark Blaise
Jim Harrison
Clayton Ruby
Robert Hass
George Toles
Stephan Bureau (interview with Mavis Gallant)
Roberto Bolano & Forrest Gander
Leon Edel (Craig Howes)
Paule Anglim (interview with Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia)
Colm Toibin
Don Paterson
Albert Nussbaum
W.S. Merwin
Sean Michaels
Charles Foran
Colum McCann & R. Chandran Madhu
Melora Wolff
Eleanor Wachtel (with Anne Carson)