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Showing posts with label Ardies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ardies. Show all posts
11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

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In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...
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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...
02 July 2021

Have Bomb – Will Travel

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This Suitcase is Going to Explode Tom Ardies Calabasas, CA: Brash Books, 2021 220 pages Of all the books I've read in 2021, This Suitcas...
12 September 2020

A Tom Ardies Cover Cavalcade

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Pandemic Tom Ardies New York: Doubleday, 1973 A follow-up to my most recent CNQ review .  In Tom Ardies' first novel, Their Man in the W...
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01 September 2020

A Red in the White House?

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Their Man in the White House Tom Ardies Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 198 pages  One of the wealthiest men in the Uni...
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27 March 2020

Reluctantly Revisiting Canada's Great Virus Novel

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Nobody told me there'd be days like these. The Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs are the least of my worries. I've ...
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Brian Busby
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.
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