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

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Showing posts with label Knowles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knowles. Show all posts
29 May 2017

The Dusty Bookcase at 1000

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Last Tuesday's post marked the one thousandth since this blog began. I saw it coming, took my eye off the ball, and didn't notic...
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23 June 2014

St. Cuthbert's and the Rest

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The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived Friday, just in time for the first day of summer, bringing another Dusty Bookc...
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19 June 2014

Misfortune Follows Reverend Knowles

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Robert E. Knowles is the very sort of fellow one would expect to have been the subject of a biography. I'm thinking here of those dr...
26 June 2009

Galt's Damaged Pastor Novelist

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92 Glenmorris Street, Cambridge, Ontario, home of Robert E. Knowles I spent much of this past Father's Day in Cambridge, that awkward, f...
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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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