MY grandparents' book case only held condensed Reader's Digest Books. For a long time, I thought older people only read condensed books because they were afraid they wouldn't live to finish longer ones.
Poking about looking for interviews with Jaques that are said to live in the Archives of Ontario, I found this post. Oh dear. Lovely cover, innuendo notwithstanding.
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
MY grandparents' book case only held condensed Reader's Digest Books. For a long time, I thought older people only read condensed books because they were afraid they wouldn't live to finish longer ones.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet those Reader Digest Condensed Books subscriptions were designed to continue for all eternity.
DeletePoking about looking for interviews with Jaques that are said to live in the Archives of Ontario, I found this post. Oh dear. Lovely cover, innuendo notwithstanding.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Of the Jaques covers I've seen this is the best. And mine is in such good condition. At a dollar it was a real find!
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