The Dusty Bookcase

After much delay, Canada Reads 2020 has come and gone. Congrats to Samra Habib, whose memoir  We Have Always Been Here won the game...

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"I'm going out for more milk." "You're kidding." "It takes an awful lot." "We have crea...

Ron Scheer died this past weekend. He was my teacher. We never met. A son of Nebraska, for more than four years Ron served as a patien...

The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...

Best Man [Doux-amer] Claire Martin [pseud. Claire Montreuil; trans. David Lobdell] Ottawa: Oberon, [1983] Claire Martin turns one ...

Regrets? I've had a few. Just last week I passed on a fine Macmillan first edition of Bernard Epps' Pilgarlic the Death  that ...

Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...

New Canadian Library series designs as reflected in the work of Sinclair Ross, beginning way back in 1958 with NCL 4. 1970 1985...

The Ottawa Citizen , 3 December 1960 McClelland and Stewart's Christmas offerings from half-a-century ago. Only This Side Jordan...