George Bowering, “Bullshit Artist”: A poetics of attention

By George Bowering | July 28, 2015

Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010.

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“George’s adventures and misadventures make Pinboy the best candidate for a Stephen Leacock Award in a long, long time … [it] deserves a higher reward than that: many, many readers.” — The Globe and Mail

“There’s a great deal of gentle humour in this book, and no overt sentimentality. Nostalgia might not be what it used to be, but most of the time it’s pretty darned good.” — Vancouver Sun

“Bowering’s always had a knack for presentation in print … Pinboy reads easily, breezily, as a memoir or a novel, or Spalding Gray-like monologue.” — Winnipeg Review

“I’ll hazard a prediction that Pinboy will be George Bowering’s most provocative work.” — Geist

“It’s the best kind of nostalgia – the kind that makes you think wistfully back on your own fifteen-year-old life. It would not work if the author were not still infused with some of that teenager’s verve and decency and wit. The boy is still very much a part of the man, and we’re all the better for it.” — BC Studies