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

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23 October 2023

Whither the Canadian American Bestseller?

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Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine  outsold eve...
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01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
02 January 2018

10 Best Book Buys of 2017 (one of which was a gift)

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Last year was meant to be one of great austerity. By rights, the 2017 edition of this annual list should be the weakest yet. There were ...
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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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