Brian Fawcett

Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944) is a Canadian writer^[1] and cultural analyst who 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 Fellow. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner. In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com (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. 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.

Bibliography

Fiction

• 1974The Opening: Prince George, Finally ()
• 1982My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories –
• 1984Capital Tales –
• 1985The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie –
• 1986Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow –
• Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World – 1990
• Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender – 1994
• The Last of the Lumbermen – 2013

Poetry

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

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 Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas – 2003

Human Happiness, 2011

References

External links

• www.dooneyscafe.com