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

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26 December 2022

The Very Best Reads of 2022: Ladies First

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Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland ...
19 December 2022

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2022 (plus gifts!)

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This year will be forever remembered as the one in which Sexpo '69  was added to my collection. An elusive book, published in 1969 by Br...
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08 August 2022

An Egotist of Yesterday

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A Daughter of To-day Mrs Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan) New York: Appleton, 1894 392 pages Of all the novels I've read this year...
02 January 2018

10 Best Book Buys of 2017 (one of which was a gift)

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Last year was meant to be one of great austerity. By rights, the 2017 edition of this annual list should be the weakest yet. There were ...
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22 December 2011

POD Cover of the Month: The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib

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Wait, isn't that Montreal ? It seems almost cruel to again focus on Nabu Press, but what better way to begin this day, the 150th...
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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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