On Browsing Jason Guriel
On Browsing
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Cover of “On Browsing”, 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover design by Ingrid Paulson.
Author: Jason Guriel
Publisher: Biblioasis
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.
Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsing’s essays chronicle what we’ve lost through online shopping, streaming, and the relentless digitization of culture. The latest in the Field Notes series from publisher Biblioasis, On Browsing is an elegy for physical media, a polemic in defense of perusing the world in person, and a love letter to the dying practice of scanning bookshelves, combing CD bins, and losing yourself in the stacks.
About the Author:
Jason Guriel is the author of Forgotten Work (Biblioasis, 2020), a verse novel written entirely in heroic couplets. Guriel is also the author of the poetry collection Satisfying Clicking Sound (Véhicule Press, 2014) and The Pigheaded Soul (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2013), a collection of poems, essays, and reviews. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, Air Mail, Poetry, and many other magazines as well as the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry in English. He received the Frederick Bock Prize in 2007 and the Editors’ Prize for Book Reviewing in 2009, both from Poetry magazine. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.