Contents -- Prefaces -- Editorial: Rhythms of Discovery -- ARTICLES -- Portrait of the Artist as Young Pup -- Journal Intime -- Notes on Realism in Modern English-Canadian Fiction -- Culture as Caricature -- Reflections on a continuing obsession: Newfoundland -- Why and How and Why Not and What Is This, About Starting Another Novel... -- The Countries of Invention -- Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction -- Local Culture and the National Will -- Mere Self -- Avenues of Research Suggested by the Fletchers Castoria Box -- The End of Emma -- Le Jardin Rêvé -- "Has Anyone Here Heard of Marjorie Pickthall?" Discovering the Canadian Literary Landscape -- My Final Hour -- All Aboa-r-rd! -- Petite Histoire d'une Obsession -- Auschwitz: Poetry of Alienation -- Entering In: The Immigrant Imagination -- Confessions of a Commercial Writer -- Ontario Culture and - What? -- The Canadian Climate -- Amelia, or: Who Do You Think You Are? Documentary and Identity in Canadian Literature -- Are Canadians Politically Naïve? Some Observations by a New Canadian from the Old World -- Basmati Rice -- An Essay about Words -- Influences -- The Art of Blackmail: Secrets and Seeing -- On Coming to British Columbia: Some Personal & Literary Reflections -- On Death and Writing -- A Cycle of Ind -- POEMS.