Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun by Jordan Stouck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers, publishers, agents, and editors asks why many Canadian artists, especially those in western provinces, spent a lifetime struggling for recognition and remuneration. Featuring exchanges with Earle Birney, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood, among others, this collection exposes the conditions of cultural work in Canada for much of the twentieth century and includes the only interview Ross ever gave. The letters, both personal and professional, are vivid, often moving, and make for terrific reading. But they go further: their chronological arrangement reveals not only the arc and development of Ross's career but the way Canadian writing as a whole grew from a marginal literature to a well-respected international one. Correspondents include: Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Ernest Buckler, George Herbert Clarke, Pamela Fry, John Gray, Ralph Gustafson, Margaret Laurence, Myrna Kostash, Jack McClelland, Ken Mitchell, John Moss, Andy Suknaski, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Robert Weaver, Adele Wiseman, and many others. | Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun by Jordan Stouck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters