Behold, Canadian Notes & Queries #104 has arrived! Here it is on the hood of our aging Jeep Liberty.
I look forward to each and every issue, but am particularly keen on this one because it features "No Country for Old Books," my essay on Canada Reads. I think it's important, not so much for my opinions, but for exposing what our "literary Survivor" has hidden from CBC listeners. The show's letter to publishers, sent this past fall, is revelatory – and is printed in full. CNQ made the essay available online last month:
No Country for Old BooksBut wouldn't you rather subscribe?
Of course you would. You can do so through this link.
I've also been looking forward to Ian Coutts' article on James Moffatt, the boozy middle-aged Canadian expat behind the bestselling skinhead novels of 'seventies Great Britain.
And then there's Michel Basilières' piece on the great Émile Nelligan in translation.
As he often does, Seth surprises; this time with a spread on The Children's Book about Pulp and Paper and other "little marvels of design and illustration" by Jacques Gagnier and Leonard L. Knott.
Also featured is a new short story by Cynthia Flood!
Other contributors include:
My Dusty Bookcase column for this issue looks at The Arch-Satirist by Frances de Wolfe Fenwick. Regular readers of this blog may remember mention of this book in a previous post and on Facebook (yeah, I'm on Facebook). "How is it that a 1910 Montreal novel that begins with the ramblings of a drunken, drug-addicted teenage poet disappoints?" I asked my Facebook "friends."Myra BloomAndreae CallananPaige CooperJason DicksonAndré ForgetStephen FowlerAlex GoodBrett Josef GrubisicCynthia HolzBen LedoucerDancy MasonDavid MasonMarko SijanFiona SmythPablo StraussSouvankham ThammavougeaJoshua WhiteheadandBruce Whiteman
Those who think I've been unfair to Miss Fenwick may wish to consider this from the July 1910 issue of Canadian Magazine:
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