[ilds] M.G. Vassanji

[James Gifford]

Hello all,

A quick note before I get to the promised comment on Tunc for Bruce...

Those who were at On Miracle Ground XII in 2002 (!!) may remember M.G. 
Vassanji's excellent keynote "The Boy in the Street: A View from 
Across."  He's evidently just published a revised version of it fourteen 
years later as "Looking at Them: The View Across the Street" in 
/Transition/ 119 (2016), pp. 22–36:

   http://muse.jhu.edu/article/614084

I've read through it here on a sunny patio, and it's as witty as the 
original (the ts. for which is held at the University of Victoria).  He 
recounts first watching the Cukor film "Justine" and then moving on the 
novels of the Quartet and their various attachments to his own novels, 
like /No New Land/, and how "For many years my City lay in my 
imagination like an open wound, raw and throbbing, until I was able to 
reinvent it and thus heal the wound."

This may be of interest to many here.

All best,
James