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Showing posts with label Macbeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macbeth. Show all posts
02 January 2025

The Nine Best Canadian Novels of the 1920s

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In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...
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02 December 2024

The Globe 100 133 of 1924: Hammond's Organ

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The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may ...
15 March 2021

Giving Madge Macbeth Her Due

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The frontispiece to Madge Macbeth's Kleath (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1917) Artist: George William Gage A brief follow-up to the...
01 March 2021

Madge Macbeth's Great Gold Rush Hoax

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The Long Day: Reminiscences of the Yukon W.S. Dill [pseud Madge Macbeth] Ottawa: Laurentian Press Syndicate, [c. 1926] 245 pages I can't...
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06 December 2019

The Twenty Best Book Buys of 2019

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Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...
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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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