The Dusty Bookcase

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries  arrives at a busy time of year, which suits me just fine. I usually race through each issue, ...

A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...

Can it be? Not four weeks into the New Year and already a new Canadian Notes & Queries ? A theme issue – "Writing in the Age of...

Behold, Canadian Notes & Queries  #104 has arrived! Here it is on the hood of our aging Jeep Liberty. I look forward to each and...

"Malcolm Lowry has an entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia , so why not wife Margerie?" This is the question I pose in reviewing...

The new issue of  Canadian Notes & Queries has arrived, bringing with it my long promised review of W.E.D. Ross's  Lust Plane...