McCord Hall, or Tuesday Night) community writers' workshop, and he served as both poetry and fiction editor at various times for The Fiddlehead, as well as writing many reviews for the magazine.
But laugher almost always wins out over despair.”—Michael Brian Oliver, The Fiddlehead “One of Bauer’s chief strengths in A Family Album is a strikingly inventive imagination.
We are urged to share his delight in life’s absurdities, even while recognizing that the foibles he describes in others are too frequently our own.”—Roger MacDonald, Canadian Book Review Annual “These stories are specific in capturing a recognizable region: the slow-paced, tradition-bound Eastern Seaboard.
It is an idyllic world from certain angles and in certain seasons, but change the perspective, come two steps closer, and it darkens into a place betrayed and deserted by time….
One savours the rich and varied vocabulary, and the experimentation with language and structure.”—Carrie MacMillan, Quill and Quire “Unsnarling String combines humour and down-to-earth philosophy, commonplace experience and delightful eccentricities.