1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.

Ondaatje has been 'fostering new Canadian writing' with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996 won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905 Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene–the “slightly ditzy” cousin of Graham Bill Richardson on a children’s book for adults by Russell Hoban Ronald Wright on William Golding’s Pincher Martin Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir’s account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles’s Othello, and much, much more.Ondaatje speaking at Tulane University, 2010 Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara’s Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Lost Classics by Michael Redgill, Michael Spalding, Esta Spalding, Linda Editors Ondaatje. Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission. Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekaras Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, “being lovers of books, we’ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory.” Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics. Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. An Anchor Books Original Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.

Lost Classics by Michael Ondaatje