QUARTERMAIN, Meredith. I, Bartleby. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2015. First Edition. Trade paperback. 215x127mm. 118pp. New.

In these quirky, imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our "Bartleby") goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and a host of other literary forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections -- the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese written characters? Taking its cue from genre-bending writers like Robert Walser and Enrique Vila-Matas, I, Bartleby cunningly challenges boundaries between fiction and reality.