The Dusty Bookcase

For the month,  the fifth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. To think I once worked to celebrate this horrible m...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...

All This Difference Dorothy Dumbrille Toronto: Progress, 1945 208 pages Progress Books, publishing arm of the Communist Party ...

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

I've never paid much attention to humorist Robert Fontaine, in part because I didn't think of him as Canadian, but a recent quer...

Thanks goes out to Jim B. for helping to identify the artist behind the handsome jacket to Philip Child's Mr. Ames Against Time , ...

Something strange stumbled upon yesterday, this list intended for "people in other countries interested in Canadian literature"...

William Arthur Deacon, as pictured on the back cover of the 1953 Ryerson edition of The Four Jameses .

Much of this past weekend was spent working on a limited edition chapbook of verse by John J. MacDonald – a modest fundraiser for the St Mar...