<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Robertson, Ray]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Robertson, Ray]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/ottawa/rss/search?query=Robertson%2C%20Ray&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:34:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Right to Be Wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA["The allure of us-versus-them fundamentalism is not unique to any single political persuasion or ideological viewpoint. But what do we lose if we all lose the freedom to disagree and learn from our mistakes? The Right to Be Wrong is a vigorous defence of independent thinking in an increasingly intolerant world."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1690725</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1690725</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1690725026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781770868175/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1527669542</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Years Combine]]></title><description><![CDATA["A dazzling tour of the fifty best and most important Grateful Dead concerts. A Grateful Dead concert, argues Ray Robertson, is life: alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. And usually all in the same show. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the same day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row. Courtesy of their unorthodox early decision to record every one of their concerts, it's now possible to follow the band’s evolution (and devolution) through nearly thirty years of shows, from the R&B-based garage band at the beginning, to the jazz-rock conjurers at their creative peak, to the lumbering, MIDI-manacled monolith of their decline. In All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows, Robertson listens to and writes about fifty of the band’s most important and memorable concerts in order to better understand who the Grateful Dead were, what they became, and what they meant—and what they continue to mean."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1526358</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1526358</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1526358026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771965705/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian novelist Ray Robertson discusses the lives and careers of thirteen musicians he admires.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C961148</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C961148</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/961148026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771960724/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dust]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk, blues to gospel, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous, to the forgotten, to the barely known, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s obsession with the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1628025</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1628025</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1628025026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771966559/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1452503441</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Die]]></title><description><![CDATA["'He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,' writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge, arguing that the active and intentional consideration of death is essential to our ability to value life. An absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death and a self-help book for people who hate self-help, How to Die is an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live meaningfully."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1210952</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1210952</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1210952026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Book About Being Alive</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771960946/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[1979]]></title><description><![CDATA["It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small town of Chatham with his father and older sister. So far, so normal. But Tom's dad is the local tattoo artist, his older sister might be in love with the new girl in town, and his Mom ran off and shacked up with pastor Bob who runs a Christian evangelical sect. And no one looks at Tom the same since he was brought back from the dead that time when he was eight. Tom delivers the Chatham Daily News, and he can give you all the news that's fit to print about the folks around here. Set in the year that real newspaper headlines told of the rise of Reagan and Mulroney and North America's hard turn to the right, the year of the kidnapped American hostages in Iran and the end of the Western world's blessedly ignorant isolation, 1979 is a novel of innocence not so much lost as smashed, and experience gained the hard way, the kind that brands memories forever and permanently changes lives."--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1093718</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1093718</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1093718026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771960960/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Not?]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C633959</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C633959</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/633959026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Fifteen Reasons to Live</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781926845272/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[David]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C555847</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C555847</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/555847026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780887624124/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=000034840903</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happened Later]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C503197</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C503197</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/503197026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780887622793/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=14987355</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental Hygiene]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C363697</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C363697</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/363697026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays on Writers and Writing</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781894663434/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=10/2003</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moody Food]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C325886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C325886</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robertson, Ray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/325886026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385259255/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1014536</image_url></item></channel></rss>