Gordon Phinn

Bowering and McFadden Gordon Phinn

What was once an extract of my 'intellectual biography in bookland' "It's All About Me", Bowering and McFadden now stands proudly apart, its roller blades attached and ready for a run about town. This second expanded edition of 2019 gathers together all my critical work on these much loved and influential Canadian writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. While falling well short of a complete critical analysis, these essays and interviews provide a starting point for future explorations. Edited and improved from their original journal publications in Books in Canada, Paragraph and Word, with a new introduction and four appendices. "Gordon Phinn has achieved a rare feat: he's brought the ivory tower of academia back to earth with a wonderfully rambling mind-bending cross-referencing, wild and witty, deftly scribed yet conversational, insightful and ultimately delightful peek inside the minds and works of two of Canada's most original best-loved literary wizards. Dive right in. The stream of Gordon's astute consciousness is clear, welcome and warm."- Stephen Roxborough, author, this wonderful perpetual beautiful and Ego To Earthschool.