Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews
Jeff Bursey
Centring the Margins is a collection of reviews and essays written between 2001 and 2014 of writers from Canada, the United States, the UK, and Europe. Most are neglected, obscure, or considered difficult, and include Mati Unt, Ornela Vorpsi, S.D. Chrostowska, Blaise Cendrars and Joseph McElroy, among others.
Author Bio
Canadian writer Jeff Bursey is a novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic. He lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog, Twitter
Previous Titles
Verbatim: A Novel (9781926531038), Enfield & Wizenty, 2010. Mirrors on which dust has fallen (9789810954376), Verbivoracious Press, 2015.
Endorsements
For years I've been reading Jeff Bursey's well-informed, well-written reviews whenever I see them, and I welcome the opportunity to catch up on all of the ones I've missed, and to see my favorites preserved in permanent form. Bursey brings to each review or essay a wide background in modern literature, an honest effort to understand an author's intentions and aesthetics, and a generosity of judgment, always finding more to praise in an author than to censure. I've picked up several books he has recommended over the years, for I've learned to trust his taste, and even those I passed over left me better informed, for he often focuses not on the big authors that are reviewed everywhere, but on the fascinating innovators who are reviewed hardly anywhere. Bursey's collection is a first-rate guide to some of the most interesting fiction and criticism written in the 21st century.
Steven Moore, author of The Novel: An Alternative History
Promotional Plans
Author website, blog. Book tour. Readings at festivals, libraries and bookstores; classes of creative-writing and political-science students. Newspapers, online journals, and radio.
USP
Canadian fiction writers rarely review books or put out collections of reviews and essays.
Competing Books
The Nearest Thing to Life (9781611687422), by James Wood
Brandeis, 2015
Categories
LITERARY CRITICISM(LIT004080) -> Canadian(LIT004080)
LITERARY CRITICISM(LIT004130) -> European(LIT004130)
LITERARY CRITICISM(LIT004290) -> Women Authors(LIT004290)
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Publication Date
July 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-400-7
$22.95 | £13.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
200PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-401-4
$12.99 | £7.99
Library of Congress
2015960678
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