John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine”s Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. He is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Standing Stones: Selected Stories, Adult Entertainment, Going Down Slow, and Kicking Against the Pricks.
18 Ebooks by John Metcalf
John Metcalf: Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To a generous …
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John Metcalf: Vital Signs
Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said ‘often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer …
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€21.99
John Metcalf: The Canadian Short Story
No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and …
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€15.99
John Metcalf: The Museum at the End of the World
Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in
The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms …
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Hugh Hood: Light Shining Out of Darkness
Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s …
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€13.99
John Metcalf: Best Canadian Stories
Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape …
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€16.99
John Metcalf: Finding Again the World
Finding Again the World brings together a dozen of the best stories by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form. Spanning more than fifty years and ranging from some of his earliest published …
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€11.99
John Metcalf: Going Down Slow
First published in 1972, Going Down Slow is an intense and very funny novel about one mans attempt to maintain his sanity, and his sense of humour, in the face of mounting odds. Metcalf’s young hero, …
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John Metcalf: Shut Up He Explained
John Metcalf’s Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism — wholly Metcalf — it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very …
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€26.99
Clark Blaise: Selected Essays
Clark Blaise’s Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan …
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Leon Rooke: Hitting the Charts
According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke’s work charts ‘what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits.’ Hitting the …
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John Metcalf: An Aesthetic Underground
‘John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country.’—Alice Munro
The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural criti …
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€19.99
John Metcalf: Medals and Prizes
Medals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man, …
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€11.99
Maxwell Lay & John Metcalf: Paving Our Ways
Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical …
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€47.43
Maxwell Lay & John Metcalf: Paving Our Ways
Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical …
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€47.43
John Metcalf: Temerity & Gall
“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington Post
In Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the curren …
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€23.99
John Metcalf: The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
‘The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough’ by John Metcalf. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From …
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John Metcalf: Off the Record
Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how th …
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