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Clark Blaise (1940-), Canadian and American, is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime advocate for the literary arts in North America, Blaise has taught writing and literature at Emory, Skidmore, Columbia, NYU, Sir George Williams, UC-Berkeley, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the David Thompson University Centre. In 1968, he founded the postgraduate Creative Writing Program at Concordia University; he after went on to serve as the Director of the International Writing Program at Iowa (1990-1998), and as President of the Society for the Study of the Short Story (2002-present). Internationally recognized for his contributions to the field, Blaise has received an Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy (2003), and in 2010 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives in New York City.
Praise for This Time, That Place [Blaise] paints a restless, uneasy portrait of society at the turn of the 21st century. -New York Times The adolescent yo-yo takes many forms in This Time, That Place (Biblioasis), which recalls an old cigar box filled with undated and often cryptic postcards. [...] Individually or as a group, these loosely linked stories will reward multiple readings. -Literary Review of Canada A dazzling gallery of portraits of North American lives rendered in Blaise's emotionally evocative style. -Joyce Carol Oates This selection contains a life's work from one of the most important short story writers to ever live in North America. No artist before Blaise, and nobody since, has moved through the continent with so much sensitivity, compassion, and intelligence. Most at home when they are lost, Blaise's characters search hardest for belonging when the conditions are least hospitable. For fifty peripatetic years, his beautifully crafted stories have shown us a way though. In our desperation, whenever we ask: 'Where am I now?' Clark Blaise provides the honest answer we need: 'Right here.' -Alexander MacLeod, author of Animal Person Praise for Clark Blaise If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden simmering cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, read the stories of Clark Blaise. He's the recording angel and the accuser, rolled into one. He's the eye at the keyhole. He's the ear at the door. -Margaret Atwood Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of. -Quill & Quire Clark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations ... with the rich and compelling detail for which [his] fiction is renowned ... Remarkable. -Joyce Carol Oates
