tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post5903429368097942234..comments2024-03-22T19:13:05.266-04:00Comments on The Dusty Bookcase: About Those Old New Canadian Library Intros (with some stuff on Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese)Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-35552942420013831392012-11-17T17:43:42.835-05:002012-11-17T17:43:42.835-05:00I remember as a 20-year-old buying the NCL edition...I remember as a 20-year-old buying the NCL edition of Robert Harlow's <i>Scann</i> at the downtown Montreal Easton's for 25ยข. <br /><br />Everything about that sentence makes me seem so very old. It doesn't help that the book was avocado green in colour.<br /><br />You're right to mention Durkin, who is not mentioned in Carlyle King's Introduction. I'm one of those who hold that <i>Wild Geese</i> was almost as much his as Ostenso's. I've only written one Durkin post to date -<a href="http://brianbusby.blogspot.ca/2012/01/dead-man-sitting.html" rel="nofollow"> this on <i>Mr. Gumble Sits Up</i></a> - and should be giving the man more attention.<br />Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-31462216539409917622012-11-17T17:23:22.439-05:002012-11-17T17:23:22.439-05:00I loved that you could pick them up for .99 at alm...I loved that you could pick them up for .99 at almost any used bookstore. I still have stacks of them that I haven't read. (plus stacks I have read...)<br /><br />Speaking of Martha Ostenso- you should write up Douglas Durkin sometime.BeauWnoreply@blogger.com