An Aesthetic Underground

Key title in the Biblioasis Renditions Series re-launch New collectible format with typographic treatment as part of series re-brand (c.f. Melville House's Novella series, tho larger format) National print campaign pitching trade-focussed reviews on process stories (PW, Kirkus, LJ, Bookforum, Foreword, Shelf Awareness, B&N, Contemporary Literature, About.com, GalleyCat, The Millions, Huffington Post, Slate, TLS, LRB) Promotions to coincide with Biblioasis's 10th anniversary (Oct 7, 2012) Will include in press promotional packets, as John's story is vital to how Biblioasis came to be what it is Renditions Series advertising in: Quill & Quire, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal Promotional postcards ("Cocky, Cranky, Carnal ... Canadian?") & ephemera at BEA Wide range promotional postcard copy mailing (1000+)

The memoir of the man who "has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."--Alice Munro"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."-Alice Munro The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.