Title: Local matters : a defence of Dooney's Café and other non-globalized places, people, and ideas /
Authors: Fawcett, Brian, 1944-; Persky, Stan, 1941-
Publisher: New Star Books,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Essays.
Abstract: A collection essays about globalization and its effects.
Contents: Cosmopolitan intelligence : an introduction / Stan Persky -- -- Pt. 1. -- Specificity -- The tides are caused by the moon's gravity, not ours : a personal essay on the future of poetry -- Versus Virus -- The purpose of paranoia -- Chaos theory and traffic control -- Exile -- Marshall McLuhan twenty years later -- Paper airplanes and other alternatives to gridlock -- Aesthetics and environmentalism -- -- Pt. 2. -- Why writers write : a reconsideration -- Richler's end -- How I got a new American education -- The anthology -- Plenitude and globalized culture -- Proofreading some war novels -- After Cambodia -- Writers and responsibility -- Cosmopolitans and the definition of 'good family'