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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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	The Astonished Man by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator), Jeff Bursey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1945 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Verbatim: A Novel 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unidentified man at left of photo 4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirrors on which dust has fallen by Jeff Bursey (Goodreads Author), Christopher WunderLee (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System by Joseph Tabbi (Editor), Dr. Michael Wutz (Contributor), Jeff Bursey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	an impalpable certain rest 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riptides: New Island Fiction by Richard Lemm (Editor), Jeff Bursey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Assume A Position: Considerations and Interviews it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Miller: New Perspectives by James M. Decker (Editor), Indrek Manniste (Editor), Louis A. Renza (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jeff Bursey and 7 other people liked Cody's review of Moses Migrating: "Jesus fucking Christ, the few reviews on here vary so wildly you’d think this final Moses book kerfuffle worthy. Fact: there is no kerfuffle. Downright kerfuffle-free. It’s attenuated to the age of Selvon, and he’s not playing at repeating his young " Read more of this review »
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Jeff Bursey and 13 other people liked Cody's review of Moses Ascending: "Selvon did a neat turn with idiomatics, here, having his Moses’ language gain British-English fluency with roughly the same facility as would naturally occur in the period between books one and two. Actually, it’s a hell of a lot more than ‘neat.’ Wh" Read more of this review »
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Jeff Bursey and 1 other person liked JPD's review of So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away: " So the Wind Won’t Blow It all Away is such a great ending to Brautigan’s work (the third one I’ve read, what am I saying?). This is leagues better than The Abortion and checks off many boxes of my interests. While Brautigan met his death by choice " Read more of this review »
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Jeff Bursey and 110 other people liked Glenn Russell's review of Heart of Darkness: " Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - read by millions, reviewed by thousands. Is it possible for me to come up with anything even approaching originality for this classic? I think not. Thus, I've confined myself to commenting on several select passag" Read more of this review »
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Comprehensive, with much material about rebel (the Falange) and Republican (the government) forces and what they did, and how so many spanish citizens died in great numbers of immediate executions. Much about the abuse of women and children connected ...more
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This isn't an in-depth look at Cowley, as that's been done elsewhere, but of his intellectual life, with its highs and lows, his efforts on the part of Faulkner and Stalin, for example, treated at appropriate length. Not stylistically captivating, as ...more
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Jeff Bursey made a comment on Ilse’s status in Berta Isla " This novel is two books to my right on a bookcase as I type. Thanks for the inadvertent reminder to read it; it's placed right after The Infatuations ...more "
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