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Showing posts with label Layton (Irving). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Layton (Irving). Show all posts
02 July 2024

My First Canadian Book of Lists List: Ten Lists That Have Aged Poorly (Featuring Barbara Amiel!)

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Being the second post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists .   I read Barbara Amiel's columns in Maclean...
27 October 2021

Blue Plaque Special: Quebec City Edition

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In the early days of the Dusty Bookcase – more than twelve years ago!  –   I heaped praise  upon London's blue plaques, singling out fav...
25 July 2014

Leonard Cohen Erotica… and John Glassco Porn

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Five glimpses of Leonard Cohen's short story "Barbers and Lovers", from the Spring 1971 issue of  Ingluvin . ...
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05 May 2014

L’enfer c’est les autres: Crad Kilodney, 1948–2014

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It's my honour to present this guest post, a tribute to the late Crad Kilodney by his friend Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr. The photo of Crad ...
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18 November 2013

T is for Thievery

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Pettes Memorial Library, Knowlton, Quebec Hugely flattered to hear you stole my book. This is fame. I used to steal a lot of boo...
12 October 2013

The Foster Poetry Conference at Fifty

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Irving Layton, Milton Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel and Aviva Layton, Foster Poetry Conference,, October 1963 Off to the Eastern T...
12 August 2013

F is for First Statement

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The editor of this mag, John Sutherland, is a very decent chap, about 30, a pretty good drinker too... – John Glassco, letter to R...
10 June 2013

The Year L.M. Montgomery Became Lucy Maud

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The Canadian Bookman , January 1909 I have Erica Brown of the wonderful Reading 1900-1950 to blame for time wasted this past weekend. ...
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28 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Irving Layton's Defence of Dog Show Girl and Deviate is Not Taken Seriously

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The Globe & Mail , 17 April 1973 I began by attacking the puritanism and the anti-sexuality that was in this country then, ...