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Showing posts with label Grove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grove. Show all posts
16 April 2024

Of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns, and David Richard Beasley

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  Canadian Authors You Should Know is a self-published book written by a man who counts himself amongst those you should know.    Is that n...
02 December 2022

Best Books of 1922: Amidst a Flood of Mediocrity

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Published one hundred years ago today, the 1922 Globe round-up of the year's noteworthy books doesn't display much by way of enthus...
09 April 2018

Who Is Canada's Outstanding Novelist? (1945)

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Critic William Arthur Deacon isn't much discussed these days – or even much recognized – but for a good part of the last century he ...
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23 May 2014

Young Mister Richler on the New Canadian Library

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Further goodness from the May 1958 issue of The Montrealer with Richler reviewing the New Canadian Library's inaugural offerings. A...
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18 July 2013

B is for the Bombardier Guide to Canadian Authors

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My introduction to Canadian literature came in the pages of National Lampoon . No joke. Canada's writers weren't taught in the...
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12 November 2012

About Those Old New Canadian Library Intros (with some stuff on Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese)

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Before I'm accused of being ungrateful, allow me this: The old New Canadian Library was good for this country. As a university stu...
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01 October 2009

That's Entertainment, Part III

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A bit of a change of pace this month as I work toward a deadline. Expect fewer words and more pictures – a bit like the revamped Maclean'...
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