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Posts by Brian Fawcett:

Review of a Review

October 11, 2021

I understand that Paul Strickland’s recent review of the northern arts magazine Thimbleberry has raised some controversy in Prince George’s arts scene concerning not just how much a reviewer can quote from the original texts, but also whether reviewers can quote at all from this magazine.  I think the sane responses to such attempts at resisting scrutiny are a)…

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Ken Belford RIP

May 16, 2020

I played baseball a couple of times with Ken Belford.  It was in the 1980s, in a league where our team of writers, which had George Bowering, Mike Barnholden, Norm Sibum, and bookseller Jim Allen, played against other print-related teams—Duthie Books had a team, there was a team of newspaper guys run by Vancouver Sun…

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