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Showing posts with label Allan (Ted). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allan (Ted). Show all posts
20 May 2024

A Poet's Pulp Novel

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The Winter of Time Raymond Holmes [Raymond Souster] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 160 pages Anyone looking for a good story is sure to b...
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12 April 2022

Talking Ted Allan with Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

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The second of my two conversations with Leacock Medal scholar Dick Bourgeois-Doyle is now available here on Soundcloud . The topic is Ted Al...
26 December 2021

The Very Best Reads of the Second Plague Year

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This  annus horribilis  draws to a close – thank God – meaning the time has come to recap the last twelve months of reading old books. I tac...
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06 December 2021

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2021... and much more!

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A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...
27 September 2021

Six Forgotten Novelists at the Atwater Library

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This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...
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11 June 2021

Love is a Long Shot on the Nose

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The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...
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01 June 2021

Little Willie, Willie Won't Go Home

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Willie the Squowse Ted Allan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 57 pages What I admire most about Ted Allan was his ability to take an ...
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17 May 2021

He and His Arrow

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Quest for Pajaro Edward Maxwell [pseud Ted Allan] London: Heinemann, 1957 116 pages Before the title page, the reader encounters this: It ha...
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