You can collect my dust if you want. Why don't you spend the money on more books instead of bookshelves and pile them up on the floor, like the rest of us?
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.
Let me know if you need a housesitter Brian! :-)
ReplyDeleteWill do, Scott. Please feel free to drop by if your travels ever brings you to the Ottawa area.
DeleteGorgeous room, Brian. And do you have one of those ladders to get you to the top shelves?
ReplyDeleteNo ladders, Tracy; I'm just tall enough. Must say, we were tempted to go even higher.
DeleteYou can collect my dust if you want.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you spend the money on more books instead of bookshelves and pile them up on the floor, like the rest of us?
So many books to rescue, Roger. I wanted some to have a proper home. Sadly, most of the collection remains in boxes.
DeleteThank you, reese. A house never seems a home until it has bookcases.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Brian. Thanks for sharing the view.
ReplyDeleteRoger Allen, you just described my decorating scheme! Have you been peering in the windows?
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