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Lynn Crosbie fonds
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Notebook

Item includes draft writing pertaining to Crosbie's book of poetry, Pearl.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and some outgoing correspondence, including letters, notes, cards and postcards. Correspondents include Paul Tough, Jennie Punter, David Keyes, Colleen Murphy, David Trinidad, and Sonja Dunn.

Publishers' catalogues

File consists of catalogues from Coach House Press, MacFarlane Walter & Ross, Insomniac Press, Turtle Point Press, House of Anansi and HarperCollins featuring Crosbie's books of poetry and prose.

Zag #2

Item is a zine featuring work by Crosbie.

Correspondence and ephemera

File consists of a collection of partially annotated correspondence, ephemera, photographs and a DVD. Included is correspondence from Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar, Michael Turner, Brad Phillips, Doug Stanhope, Ann Ireland and Mary Gaitskill, an early draft fragment of Life Is About Losing Everything, as well as a photograph of Michael Turner.

The Girl Wants To : contracts, license agreements and permission letters

Items in this file pertain to various licence agreements and contracts for stories published in this anthology edited by Crosbie. Also included in the file are items relating to the closure of Coach House Press, the original publisher of this book, and efforts to get permissions signed for the book to be reprinted by Macfarlane Walter & Ross.

"He scares me so"

Item is a published poem by Crosbie in The Apostles' Bar: a poetry journal (vol. 1, no. 2).

Author trading cards : Lynn Crosbie

Item is a trading card featuring a photograph of Crosbie on verso and a brief biography on recto, produced by The Booksmith, a bookstore in San Francisco. It was used to promote Crosbie's reading at the store and includes information about the reading.

Day planner

Day planner includes loose notes, correspondence and ephemera.

Notebook

Notebook consists of notes written by Crosbie and Tony Burgess.

Letters and notes from Tony Burgess

File also includes notes and letters written to Burgess from Crosbie and several cards and postcards from Crosbie's parents and David McGimpsey, as well as a photograph of Burgess at Christmas.

Miscellaneous personal correspondence

File consists of personal incoming correspondence as well as some unsent correspondence written by Crosbie. Correspondents include David Trinidad, Bruce McDonald, Neil Eustache, Russell Smith, Jeffery Conway, Kerri Huffman and R.M. Vaughan.

Learning Annex

File consists of records pertaining to Crosbie's attendance at Learning Annex courses, including course handouts, course catalogues, a newspaper clipping and an invoice.

Correspondence and press release

File consists of correspondence pertaining to Crosbie's employment at the University of Toronto and a press release from Toronto Arts Council regarding grants to writers, including Crosbie.

Notebook

Item consists of Crosbie's research notes on the subject of suicide.

Correspondence

File consists of miscellaneous correspondence and writing sent to Crosbie, as well as photographs of Crosbie and Tony Burgess on vacation and notes written by Crosbie.

John Kordic research materials

File consists of correspondence, newspaper articles, and copies of medical reports pertaining to the life and death of hockey player John Kordic.

"The major arcana : a tarot reading"

Item is a published poem by Crosbie in Pan del Muerto (Spring 1992, vol. 2). Journal is published by the graduate students in the English Department at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

File consists of newspaper and magazine articles reviewing or mentioning Crosbie and her books, The Girl Wants To, VillainElle, and Miss Pamela's Mercy.

Introduction

Item is a short essay or chapter about Anne Sexton, likely an early section of her PhD thesis.

"Sabrina"

Item is a published poem by Crosbie in Narc: New Artist Review Co-op (issue 3, Nov. 1991).

Day planner

Day planner includes loose notes, correspondence and a photograph of Crosbie.

Crash : a litzine

Item is the first issue of a literary zine created by Maggie Helwig and featuring a poem by Crosbie entitled "All about Eve".

Teaching notebook

Item consists of Crosbie's notes used to teach a University of Toronto seminar class in English literature.

Notebook

Item consists of notes pertaining to Crosbie's PhD thesis.

Photographs of Lynn Crosbie

File consists of both formal portraits of Crosbie and photos of Crosbie with friends. Some photographs in this file, taken by David Hyde, were used in a t-shirt promotion for This Magazine. A copy of the t-shirt ad is included in the file.

Hysteria

Item is a photocopied collection of definitions of hysteria, with accompanying graphics, from literary and popular culture sources.

Poetry/biz

File consists of records pertaining to Crosbie's efforts to publish her book of poetry Miss Pamela's Mercy in 1991. These records include correspondence, grant applications, poems and a signed Coach House Press publishing agreement.

"Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"

Item is a short essay or chapter by Crosbie comparing the confessional poetry of Plath and Sexton, likely an early section of her PhD thesis.

Teaching/biz

File consists of records pertaining to a course taught by Crosbie at McLaughlin College at York University entitled "Images of women in modern Canadian literature" (MC1700.06), include a McLaughlin College course catalogue, a list of essay topics, a form pertaining to new course proposals, and a memorandum pertaining to a books and supplies allowance for part-time faculty and teaching assistants. Included in the file are two poems by Crosbie, "La pieta" and "Ma griffe".

Letterhead

File consists of three versions of Crosbie's letterhead featuring an image of a rat.

Audiovisual material

Series consists of video recordings of Crosbie appearing on a variety of television programs in promotion of her books or as a guest panelist, as well as audio recordings of radio interviews with or literary readings by Crosbie. Included in the series are audio recordings of her interview with Al Purdy in January 2000.

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