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

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Showing posts with label Livesay (Florence Randal). Show all posts
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13 May 2018

Verse for Mother's Day by Dorothy Livesay's Mum

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Florence Randal Livesay 1874 - 1953 RIP Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec t...
09 April 2018

Who Is Canada's Outstanding Novelist? (1945)

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Critic William Arthur Deacon isn't much discussed these days – or even much recognized – but for a good part of the last century he ...
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24 July 2013

C is for Canada Monthly

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The October 1912 issue of Canada Monthly , purchased late last year for the humour – black humour – of its cover: Agnes Deans Cameron...
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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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