The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts
10 June 2025

Looking Back on Looking Forward

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The Daily Witness , 16 May 1913 An addendum to last week's post on Looking Forward by Hugh Pedley . Looking Forward  features cub repor...
03 February 2025

Pardonable Levels of Violence

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Tolerable Levels of Violence Robert G. Collins Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983 241 pages Four years ago, while driving home from a ...
02 December 2024

The Globe 100 133 of 1924: Hammond's Organ

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The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may ...
22 July 2024

A Mid-Century Modern Country House Mystery

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Harsh Evidence Pamela Fry London: Wingate, 1953 172 pages Because this is a Canadian country house mystery, the house isn't terribly old...
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04 June 2024

Three Weeks a Lady

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Three Weeks Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [c. 1924] 245 pages I misread "IMMORTAL ROMANCE" as "IMMORAL ROMANCE," which...
12 May 2024

Growing up with Mother

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Miranda Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard -Schuman, 1960 247 pages   Miranda is the mother of two daughters, the younger bein...
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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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