The Dusty Bookcase

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

Hooked Ernie Hollands with Doug Brendel Toronto: Mainroads Productions, 1987 A stolen car took me there. Hollywood was a grotesque p...

A not-so-brief follow-up to last week's post on Judith Merril's Shadow on the Hearth . "The title of my book had been chos...

My newest acquisition: Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography Mrs. L. St. John Eckel New York: Published for the Author b...

Read over my morning coffee: Despite all the motives attributed to us, journalists seldom set out to uncover human flaws or scandal ...

'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry'  pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...

A brief addendum to Wednesday's post , in which I happened to mention that my copy of Lucius A. Parmelee's The Confessions of a ...

The Confessions of a Bank Swindler Lucius A. Parmelee Waterloo, QC: Duval, 1968 The author begins by boasting that a member of the...

The new issue of Canadian Notes and Queries has arrived, bringing a rich mixture of essays on collecting, bookselling and Mordecai Rich...

Either you hit the jackpot or get nowhere. There are much better writers than myself who can't even get to first base for coffee ...

Margaret Trudeau: The Prime Minister's Runaway Wife Felicity Cochrane Scarborough, ON: Signet, 1978 Anyone needing a reminder...

News this morning of five more Tory senate appointments, including yet another published author. This time the honour goes to Pierre-Hughes ...