The Dusty Bookcase

Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...

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It's my honour to present this guest post, a tribute to the late Crad Kilodney by his friend Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr. The photo of Crad ...

List 75: Canadian Literature Vancouver: William Hoffer, Bookseller, [1989?] In spite of his obvious weirdness I found myself liking h...

My introduction to Canadian literature came in the pages of National Lampoon . No joke. Canada's writers weren't taught in the...

The Canadian Bookman , January 1909 I have Erica Brown of the wonderful Reading 1900-1950 to blame for time wasted this past weekend. ...