The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Banned books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banned books. Show all posts
24 June 2024

Fifteen Favourite Quebec Novels pour la Fête

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For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...
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04 June 2024

Three Weeks a Lady

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Three Weeks Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [c. 1924] 245 pages I misread "IMMORTAL ROMANCE" as "IMMORAL ROMANCE," which...
04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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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...
21 March 2022

Joan Suter, Angus Hall, and the Collector in Me

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I've got several paying projects on the go, all with tight deadlines, meaning there won't be any reviews here for the next month or ...
02 July 2019

Getting to Know the Woman Who Did

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The Woman Who Did Grant Allen Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895 223 pages The Woman Who Did was the first Grant Allen novel I ever bought...
23 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Hugh MacLennan's Profane and Vulgar Barometer Rising

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The Calgary Herald , 9 December 1960
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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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