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

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20 May 2024

A Poet's Pulp Novel

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The Winter of Time Raymond Holmes [Raymond Souster] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 160 pages Anyone looking for a good story is sure to b...
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12 April 2022

Talking Ted Allan with Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

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The second of my two conversations with Leacock Medal scholar Dick Bourgeois-Doyle is now available here on Soundcloud . The topic is Ted Al...
11 June 2021

Love is a Long Shot on the Nose

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The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...
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17 October 2016

A List of Montreal's Post-War Pulps: Second Shot

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Late last month, I was interviewed by CULT MTL for their cover story on Montreal pulp and the Ricochet Books series. The issue arrived ...
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26 January 2016

Remembering Ted Allan on His Hundredth

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Today marks the centenary of Ted Allan’s birth. Though our lives overlapped by more than three decades, the only time I actually laid ey...
04 November 2014

Nothing Says Violence Like Harlequin

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Violence sells but I'm not buying, which may be why it's taken me so long to see just how much it was used in pushing early Har...
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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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