![]() ![]() Glassco’s Parisian adventures may have provided source material for more successful writers’ fiction (a not-so-flattering version of him populates Morley Callaghan’s “Now That April’s Here”), but he proved to be his own greatest muse.Īs this book’s subtitle makes clear, Glassco dabbled in many literary forms (with varying degrees of success-the more he wrote about spanking, it seems, the better his sales), but he truly excelled at self-mythology. ![]() Most of those things, however, never happened. He drank with Joyce, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. He got an earful of scorn from Gertrude Stein (for championing Jane Austen). After dropping out of McGill, frustrated poet John “Buffy” Glassco (1909-1981) left the well-feathered family nest to flit around Europe, where he rubbed shoulders (and possibly more) with a who’s-who of the ex-pat arts scene. ![]()
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