The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrives at a busy time of year, which suits me just fine. I usually race through each issue, reading it from cover to cover, but am now forced to slow the pace and savour.
And so, all I've read thus far is Seth's regular column 'The Landscape.' The beginning raised a smile of self-recognition:
There are still a few places in Ontario where one can find shelves (or piles) of old second hand books for sale that have not been curated. Randomly acquired, roughly heaped into sections, and priced not by author and title but by paperback or hardcover status alone. These places are dwindling fast but I still know a few prime spots. Don't expect me to name them or tell you where they're located though. s if. I don't want you going there. These are my secret places. My old books! Keep out.
Seth's focus this time is The Canada Permanent Story, 1855-1955. "These corporate books weren't really meant to be perused," he writes, yet Seth has done just that, sharing this endpaper illustration:
My own contribution concerns Garnett Weston, whose books and film work consumed much of my summer. They also consumed a fair amount of my income. I've yet to find a Weston in any of my secret places.
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| Garnett Weston 1890 - 1980 RIP |
It's not entirely true that I've only read Seth's column. Among the other contributions is 'Telling the Story,' in which Susan Mayse remembers her father Arthur Mayse's writing career. I commissioned the piece as the forward to the forthcoming Ricochet Books reissue of Arthur Mayse's 1949 novel Perilous Passage.
There's so much more to look forward to, including writing by:
Given that it's the season... Anyone looking for a last minute Christmas gift can't do much better than a subscription to Canadian Notes & Queries. I bought a couple. You can, too!Stephanie BolsterAlex BoydKornella DrianovakiMegan DurnfordStacey EastonAndré ForgetStephen FowlerAlex GoodRonald L GrimesBrett Joseph GrubisicLuke HathawayDavid HuebertMark Anthony JarmanKate KennedyAris KeshavM Travis LaneRohen MaitzenDancy MasonDavid MasonJeff MillerNofelJ R PattersonShazia Hafiz RamjiPatricia RobertsonNaben RuthnumCal SepuliaDrew TapleyRob TaylorCarl WattsBruce Whitman
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