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Jeff Bursey

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Jeff Bursey is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright and literary critic.

His books: Verbatim: A Novel (hardcover, October 2010; paperback, February 2018); Mirrors on which dust has fallen (June 2015); Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews (July 2016); Unidentified man at left of photo (September 2020); an impalpable certain rest (June 2021); Assume A Position: Considerations and Interviews (July 2022).

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Kant might argue that it was his duty to make my verse or prose more sensible and logical, and correct my vision so that it was morally upright, even though he may not want to carry out those duties, but being Kant it's the doing of unpleasant duties that counts more on this earth and in heaven than doing something pleasurable that may also be a duty. In short, he'd be John Gardnerish as an editor. But it's possible that maybe after being resurrected some centuries after his death he'd be a little more humble and mellow.(less)
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Whitaker Hi! Pleased to meet you. I'm looking forward to what you do next. :-)


Scribble Orca Happy New Year - all the best for 2014!


Scribble Orca Thanks, Jeff.


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