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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
08 December 2025

The 1925 Globe 110: Less Motoring, More Reading

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Much to my dismay, this year's Globe 100 was published late last month. I thought I'd made it clear last year that November is too e...
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02 December 2025

The Best Canadian Books in English (as of 1925)

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One hundred years ago today, the Toronto Globe published a short article about a YMCA book contest. The Association had asked participants ...
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08 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 3): After the Harvest

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The third of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . The only film adaptation of  Wild Geese...
15 September 2025

A Fair Thriller

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A Fair Affair Paul Champagne Winnipeg: Greywood, 1967 190 pages The Canadian Government has reason to believe there is a vast conspiracy wor...
18 August 2025

A Pulp Writer's Challenge to Canadians

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Original Detective Stories Volume 1, Number 1 April 1948 Can a magazine written entirely by one person be considered a book? Of course not, ...
24 July 2025

Sunshine Scandals of a Little Town

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A View of the Town Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1954 269 pages There is no town of Inverness on Nova ...
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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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