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

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Showing posts with label Costain. Show all posts
16 April 2024

Of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns, and David Richard Beasley

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  Canadian Authors You Should Know is a self-published book written by a man who counts himself amongst those you should know.    Is that n...
23 October 2023

Whither the Canadian American Bestseller?

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Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine  outsold eve...
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31 December 2018

An Old Year's Audience with Our Lord

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Post-war verse for a year's end by Ida Randolph Spragge, wife of Maclean's editor Thomas B. Costain, from the magazine's Ja...
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03 December 2018

Robert W. Service's Revised Christmas Miracle (with the poet's forgotten reading instructions)

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Much of this past weekend was spent in preparation for Christmas, but I did manage a couple of hours with the December 1918 edition ...
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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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