The New Brick Reader

By Tara Quinn

Fifty writers on life, art, and writing from 22 years of Brick, A Literary Journal.

Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal prizes the personal voice and celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke. Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and unusual musings, The New Brick Reader is the perfect introduction for those new to Brick and an ideal treasury for the magazine's many fans.

Contributors include Rob Fyfe, Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje (interview with Malouf), Annie Proulx, Brand, Creeley, Rushdie, CD Wright, Atwood, Gibson, Russell, Banks, Peter Harcourt, Jane Rule, James Wood (interviews W G Sebald), Helen Garner, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Helm, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roo Borson, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Lilburn, Robert Creeley, Michelle Orange, Fanny Howe, A. L. Kennedy, Semi Chellas, Don DeLillo, Alistair Bland, Dionne Brand, Esta Spalding (interviews David Sedaris), John Berger, Clark Blaise, Jim Harrison, Clayton Ruby, Robert Hass, George Toles, Stephan Bureau (interview with Mavis Gallant), Roberto Bolano, Forrest Gander, Leon Edel (Craig Howes), Paule Anglim (interview with Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia), Colm Toibin, Don Paterson, Albert Nussbaum, W.S. Merwin, Sean Michaels, Charles Foran, Colum McCann, R. Chandran Madhu, Melora Wolff, and Eleanor Wachtel (with Anne Carson).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177089408X
• ISBN13: 9781770894082
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 8.7"