June 14, 2007
Bruce Serafin: 1950 - 2007
By John Burns
Bruce Serafin, an editor and essayist best known for founding and running the Vancouver Review, died June 6. Serafin was born in 1950 and, as he related in his 2004 memoir, Colin’s Big Thing (Ekstasis Editions), he spent 14 years working at Canada Post. Brian Fawcett, a contemporary now living in Toronto, remembered Serafin for his fine eye and the “impossible” standards he set for his writing: “He was a strange, wonderful guy,” Fawcett said, “who should have published a lot more, but didn’t.” Happily, Stardust, a collection of Serafin’s literary essays will be published this fall by New Star Books.
A celebration of Serafin’s life will take place Sunday (June 17) from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 57–1465 Lamey’s Mill Road on Granville Island.
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