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

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04 August 2022

Remembering Sean Kelly

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Sean Kelly is the first writer I got to know and love. Together we witnessed Alexis Nihon's burning ashes, survived Hurricane Bob, quest...
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03 June 2022

Reading Writing About Richard Rohmer

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Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer's commanding countenance graces the cover of the new issue of Zoomer , just now hitting the stands. A ...
01 September 2021

The Prince Classics Robert Barr (Monsarrat mentioned)

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  A brief follow-up to last week's post on One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame . Prince Classics is new to me, but has quick...
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07 June 2021

Criminal Notes & Queries

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The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...
16 January 2018

Resuming Richard Rohmer: A Plea for Help

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Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...
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06 January 2014

Resolved to Reading Richard Rohmer

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What does a well-travelled, physically fit, non-smoker with exemplary personal hygiene do as a New Year's resolution? I don't ...
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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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