Centring the Margins Essays and Reviews by JeffBursey Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by Zero Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78535-400-7, ISBN: 1-78535-400-0
"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."
Verbatim(1st Edition) A Novel by JeffBursey Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by Enfield & Wizenty ISBN-13: 978-1-926531-03-8, ISBN: 1-926531-03-5
"Verbatim: a Novel is a blackly humorous exposé of parliamentary practice in an unnamed Atlantic province. The dirty tricks, vicious insults, and inept parliamentary procedures of the politicians are recorded by a motley crew of Hansard employees. But when the Hansard bureaucrats begin to emulate their political masters, the parliamentary system’s supposed dignity is further stripped away. Jeff Bursey reveals in both high and low humour ..."
"Read remarkable fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversation about literature in the Summer 2010 issue of The Literary Review, an international quarterly publishing astonishing writing since the middle of the last century. The Worst Team Money Could Buy features dreadful tales of hapless efforts, vexed ambitions, and impossible odds. Prosthetic legs, hot wings, spontaneous combustion, doppelgangers, spam, incest, the economy, ..."
Centring the Margins Essays and Reviews by JeffBursey 200 Pages, Published 2016 by John Hunt Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78535-401-4, ISBN: 1-78535-401-9
"In 2011 Andrew Gallix, in the Guardian, wrote a piece on unread difficult books,
and he mentioned “an anthology of blank books [edited by Michael Gibbs]
entitled All Or Nothing.” We can consider Blank as continuing ... is filled with
words. None of them are his. Oulipian Daniel Levin Becker, in his introduction
written in 99 notes (riffing on the late Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style,
where one anecdote is written in 99 ways), ..."
"Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for ..."
"Likely to have the distinction of being the first (and perhaps only) novel constructed using the format of parliamentary debates, Verbatim: A Novel is presented as a Hansard document interspersed with office emails (using a multiplicity of fonts) between the new Hansard Director, editors, other Hansard employees, and parliamentary officials, creating a palpable tension which progresses the novel. Rather than mirror the exaggerated and e ..."
"Set against a backdrop of public scandal and private dilemma, Mirrors on which dust has fallen presents the quotidian concerns of the average and the not-so-average inhabitants of the fictitious Bowmount, the province featured in Bursey's precursor Verbatim: A Novel. The varied cast of characters examine and defend their spiritual beliefs, from God to evolution; their views on art, as painting battles photography for supremacy; and thei ..."