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

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29 December 2025

The Three Best Reads of 2025 (two are in print!)

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An annus horribilis , wouldn't you say? Strange, too! Never thought I'd be flying the flag of Greenland from the porch of our Upper ...
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27 November 2025

Discussing Canadian Lit With ChatGPT: Alternative Facts or Alternate Universe?

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A brief addendum to  the recent post on  The Magpie . It has now been three years since ChatGPT was released to the public. I was AI-curious...
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14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

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The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...
20 October 2025

Wild Wild Geese

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Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...
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01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
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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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