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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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08 March 2020

10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day

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One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...
09 April 2018

Who Is Canada's Outstanding Novelist? (1945)

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Critic William Arthur Deacon isn't much discussed these days – or even much recognized – but for a good part of the last century he ...
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16 January 2017

A Quiet, Mildly Depressing Depression-Era Debut

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John Irene Baird Philadelphia/Toronto: Lippincott, 1937 A first novel, the discovery that this copy is a fourth impression surprised...
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16 December 2013

A Last-Minute Slogan, "Give Books"

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Coaching courtesy of an old Eaton's ad published in the 23 December 1933 Globe & Mail . The venerable department store recomme...
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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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