Brian Fawcett

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Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944) is a Canadian writer and cultural analyst who currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born and raised in Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson scholar. Before becoming a full time writer, he worked as an urban planner. He has also taught cultural literacy in maximum security prisons. Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in my Hometown won the 2003 Pearson Prize for Canadian non-fiction. In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com [1] (named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West), which is described as "a news service" and to which he is a regular contributor.

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[edit] Published Works

[edit] Fiction

  • The Opening: Prince George, Finally(1974)
  • My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories - 1982
  • Capital Tales - 1984
  • The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie - 1985
  • Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow - 1986
  • Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World - 1990
  • Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender - 1994
  • Virtual Clearcut: or, the Way Things Are in My Home Town-2003

[edit] Poetry

  • Five Books of a Northmanual - 1971
  • Friends - 1971
  • Permanent Relationships - 1975
  • Creatures of State - 1977
  • Tristram's Book - 1981
  • Aggressive Transport - 1982

[edit] Non-Fiction

  • Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions - 1991
  • The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space - 1992
  • The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today - 1997
  • Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown - 2003
  • Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's CafĂ© and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas - 2003
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