Just this very moment put down Memoirs of Montparnasse, which was recommended to me by a friend. Absolutely loved it - so unfortunate that more people don't know about it. I will definitely be sharing this book with others! Stumbled across your blog and will be back!
Always nice to hear that someone else has discovered a favourite book, Deirdre. If you're at all interested in more on Glassco's Montparnassean adventures, you might want to visit my A Gentleman of Pleasure blog. There are photographs. Enjoy!
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
Just this very moment put down Memoirs of Montparnasse, which was recommended to me by a friend. Absolutely loved it - so unfortunate that more people don't know about it. I will definitely be sharing this book with others! Stumbled across your blog and will be back!
ReplyDeleteAlways nice to hear that someone else has discovered a favourite book, Deirdre. If you're at all interested in more on Glassco's Montparnassean adventures, you might want to visit my A Gentleman of Pleasure blog. There are photographs. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteYesterday I finalized the book. Fascinating!!
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