The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Epigraphs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epigraphs. Show all posts
21 November 2022

A Romance of Toronto: CanLit Most Verbose

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A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) Mrs Annie G. Savigny Toronto: William Briggs, 1888 229 pages The first chapter, 'Toronto a Fair M...
29 October 2022

Reverend King's Slow and Simple Swan Song

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Satan as Lightning Basil King New York: Harper, 1929 280 pages Basil King is the only Canadian to have topped the year-end list of bestselli...
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14 August 2020

They Fell in Love With the Actress

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The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 246 pages Olivia Thompson's dead body lies in a slowly growing p...
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21 September 2015

'A Relentless Story of the Hell of Drug Addiction'

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The Damned and the Destroyed Kenneth Orvis [pseud. Kenneth Lemieux] London: Dobson, 1962 How many novels begin with the protagonist ...
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21 June 2013

The Poetic David Montrose

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From Ottawa comes a new chapbook of hard-boiled epigrams drawn from the writings of one of our finest noir writers. The words this time...
03 September 2012

The Poetic Martin Brett

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Cast your eyes on what is surely the most elegant Douglas Sanderson item. Printed with a Vandercook SP-15 press on St. Armand Old Maste...
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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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