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Showing posts with label Letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Letters. Show all posts
09 October 2024

Pearl White is The White Moll!

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The Moving Picture World 2 October 1920 A follow-up to last week's post on Frank L. Packard's The White Moll . TheWhite Moll was the...
16 July 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: F is for Fulford

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...
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05 March 2018

The Pyx Censored!

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I spent a couple of hours this past weekend researching John Buell's second novel, Four Days , first published fifty-five years ago ...
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01 August 2016

Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down...

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Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures. They began tearing down the old school next to our home last w...
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11 July 2016

The Paratrooper, the Professor and the Publisher: The Nasty Public Battle Over The Quebec Plot

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The first review of my first book was negative. The reviewer's disappointment had to do with my having written the book I wanted to...
31 August 2015

Langevin's Masterpiece; McClelland's Disappointment

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Orphan Street [ Une Chaîne dans le parc ] André Langevin [trans., Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 287 pages ...
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22 July 2015

Hugh Garner: Article Lost, Article Found

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Toronto: Ryerson, 1968 Markhan, ON: PaperJacks, 1983 Toronto: Dundurn, 2011 A Bo...
24 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Catherine Seppala, the Book Burning Mayor of Fort William, Ontario

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Catherine Seppala 1907 - 1975 RIP Day Two of Freedom to Read Week, but I consider this the real beginning. Welcome to the working w...
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...
06 October 2013

The Heart Accepts It All in Knowlton: An Invitation

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John Glassco with 'housekeeper' Mary Elizabeth Wilson, Knowlton, QC, 1940 Join me this coming Saturday for the Eastern Towns...
28 September 2013

L is for League of Canadian Poets

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The League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets n.p.: The League of Canadian Poets, 1980 My present situation vis-à-vis ...
19 August 2013

G is for Glassco

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Yes, G is for Glassco. After all, it's not been a week since the launch of  The Heart Accepts It All:   Selected Letters of John Gla...
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