"This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers, publishers, agents, and editors asks why many Canadian artists, especially those in western provinces, spent a lifetime struggling for recognition and remuneration. Featuring exchanges with Earle Birney, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood, among others, this collection exposes the conditions of cultural work in Canada for much of the t ..."
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The Measure of Paris(1st Edition) (Wayfarer) by Stephen Scobie, JordanStouck Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2010 by The University Of Alberta Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88864-533-3, ISBN: 0-88864-533-3
"Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas as social history and personal memoir. Th ..."
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"Sinclair Ross is with us, and I'd like to ask him if we in Canada have allowed him
to perish. sinclair ross: Well, writers and artists are often neglected, and I don't
think that the Canadian public should be rapped over the knuckles too hard ... I'm
wondering too if As for Me and My House, your best-known book, which was
published in 1941, if it was, like many good books, a bit ahead of its time, in that
the vogue for the Thirties ..."