Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963)[1] is a Canadian author, editor, and sessional Lecturer of English at the University of British Columbia.

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Education

He obtained degrees from the University of Victoria (B.A., M.A.) and the University of British Columbia (Ph.D.)

Career

He has edited one anthology of gay male pulp fiction, and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers. The former collection highlights stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream; the latter, featuring such acclaimed writers as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai, aims to redress an absence which the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction. Grubisic's debut novel, The Age of Cities, was published in 2006,[2] and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Set predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain evolution of a librarian as he struggles between two disparate choices, one urban and the other rural. This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Grubisic's follow-up novel, appeared in 2014.[3] Satirizing university campus and film production politics, it recounts the comic but transformative experience of two anti-heroic protagonists, Marta Spëk, an English professor, and Jakob Nugent, a film production manager, as they travel from Vancouver to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in order to work on a television biopic about Lady Hester Stanhope. Understanding Beryl Bainbridge, Grubisic's comprehensive study of the British author's fiction, was published in 2008; it examines Bainbridge as a blackly comic novelist as well as a writer of historiographic metafiction.

He has written about film, books, and writers for the Toronto Star, Literary Review of Canada, National Post, the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Xtra!.

In 2015, he served as a judge for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, selecting Alex Leslie as that year's winner.[4]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• Understanding Beryl Bainbridge (University of South Carolina Press, 2008)
• American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 (Arsenal Pulp, 2009)
• National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010)
• Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014)

Fiction

• The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006)
• This Location of Unknown Possibilities (Now or Never Press, 2014)
• From Up River and For One Night Only (Now or Never Press, 2016)
• Oldness; Or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O (Now or Never Press, 2018)
• My Two-Faced Luck (2021)

Anthologies

• Contra/Diction: New Gay Male Fiction. (Arsenal Pulp, 1998)
• Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (Arsenal Pulp, 2000), edited with Carellin Brooks

References

External links

• The Age of Cities