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DESCRIPTION:The 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Department of English and 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ-Queen's University
 \nPress present a public lecture by Brian Busby on Montreal author\nJohn G
 lassco.\nCelebrated literary translator Sheila Fischman will introduce\nMr
 . Busby. Dr. Richard Virr\, chief curator of the 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Library's\nRare Bo
 oks and Special Collections\, will discuss the library's\nGlassco papers. 
 The lecture coincides with the release of Brian\nBusby's new book: A Gentl
 eman of Pleasure: One Life of John\nGlassco\, Poet\, Memoirist\, Translato
 r\, and Pornographer. A book\nsigning will follow.\nJohn Glassco (1909-198
 1) holds a unique\nposition in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious r
 eputation\nthroughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of\nMont
 parnasse\, the controversial chronicle of his youthful\nadventures and enc
 ounters with celebrities in the Paris of James\nJoyce\, Gertrude Stein\, a
 nd Ernest Hemingway. Less known are his\npoetry\, his instrumental role in
  the foundation of modern\ntranslation\, and his numerous - and widely pop
 ular - works of\npornography. A Gentleman of Pleasure not only spans Glass
 co's life\nbut delves into his background as a member of a once prominent 
 and\npowerful Montreal family. In addition to Glassco's readily\navailable
  work\, Brian Busby draws on pseudonymous writings\npublished as a 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ 
 student as well as unpublished and previously\nunknown poems\, letters\, a
 nd journal entries to detail a vibrant\nlife while pulling back the curtai
 n on Glassco's sexuality and\nunconventional tastes. In a lively account o
 f a man given to\ndeception\, who took delight in hoaxes\, Busby manages t
 o\nsubstantiate many of the often unreliable statements Glassco made\nabou
 t his life and work.\nA Gentleman of Pleasure is a remarkable biography th
 at\ncaptures the knowable truth about a fascinatingly complex and\nsecreti
 ve man. Brian Busby is an independent scholar and the author\nof several b
 ooks\, including Character Parts: Who's Really Who\nin CanLit.\nURL:  http
 ://www.alumni.mcgill.ca/event/?id=NzY5MQ%3D%3D\n
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture by Brian Busby on Montreal author John Glassco
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