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Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Life Is About Losing Everything
( From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar ...)
From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are a repository of a seven-year period in the author's life; they are also a gymnasium where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks. Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about '80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), Life Is About Losing Everything speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.
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Missing Children
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Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie (2014-09-09)
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Lynn Crosbie
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She received her Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Toronto, writing her Doctor of Philosophy thesis on the work of the American poet Anne Sexton.
Career
She teaches at the University of Toronto. In 1997, Insomniac Press published her controversial book on the Canadian criminal Paul Bernardo, Paul"s Case. In 2006, Crosbie published a book-length poem titled Liar, available through House of Anansi Press.
Liar is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes, author of the critically acclaimed poetry book Parts Unknown.
Her long relationship with the writer Tony Burgess is chronicled in Pearl (1996). Crosbie has lectured on and written about visual art at the AGO, the Power Plant, and OCAD University (where she taught for six years) She is an award-winning journalist who has a regular column titled "People’s Rocks" in the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to Toronto Life Fashion.
Her Trampoline Hall Lecture was entitled "Don"t Have Casual Sex". Her book Life Is About Losing Everything, a roman à clef/fictional memoir, was released in April 2012 by House of Anansi.
Her novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night was published in 2015 from House of Anansi.
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Life Is About Losing Everything
( From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar ...)
- Missing Children
- Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie (2014-09-09)
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Life Is About Losing Everything
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Canada