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Showing posts with label Gallant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gallant. Show all posts
29 August 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: X is for X X X

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). This one's a cheat. I reviewed The Whip ...
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11 August 2022

Mavis Gallant: 100 Years

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Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant (née Young) was born one hundred years ago today. Her image doesn't feature on the cover of Montreal St...
11 June 2018

The Goth Gallant

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My Heart is Broken Mavis Gallant Don Mills, ON: PaperJacks, 1974 Related posts: The Erotic Mordecai Richler The Pornographic Ed...
11 July 2016

The Paratrooper, the Professor and the Publisher: The Nasty Public Battle Over The Quebec Plot

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The first review of my first book was negative. The reviewer's disappointment had to do with my having written the book I wanted to...
02 February 2016

Of War, Peace and Montreal's Writers' Chapel

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It seems 2016 has barely begun and yet the year's first issue of Canadian Notes & Queries has already landed. The ninety-fourth...
02 October 2015

Mavis Gallant Memorial Plaque

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Cast earlier today at Alloy Foundry in Merrickville, Ontario , a plaque honouring the great short story writer Mavis Gallant. Next Fri...
18 October 2014

Amazon Customers: Mavis Gallant Was a Stuck Up Intellectual Who Wouldn't Deliver Her Books

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A bonus: Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review Much Ado Abou...
29 May 2012

Canada's Most Popular Writers (25 Years Ago)?

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Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...
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02 May 2009

The American Version: The N Word

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I arrive today in New York, my first foray into post-Bush America (until Jeb, that is). It's been several years since I last visited t...
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06 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part I)

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The Whip Angels Selena Warfield [pseud. Diane Bataille] New York: Olympia Book Society, 1968 184 pages This review no...