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

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25 March 2015

Pornography Dressed Up as a Cautionary Tale

Death by Deficit: A 2001 Novel Richard Rohmer Toronto: Stoddart, 1995 There are plenty of villains in this novel – Quebecers, bank...

15 October 2013

Beware the Savage Jaw of 1981

Red Maple: How Canada Became the People's Republic of Canada in 1981 Kenneth McDonald Richmond Hill, ON: BMG Publishing, 1975 ...

26 January 2013

Harper Hockey Book Watch: Year Nine, Day 222

A big tip of the hat and nod of respect this fine weekend to journalist Stephen Maher for doggedly pursuing a story which so many o...

31 December 2010

In Search of George Pepki, Poet

Yesterday's Globe and Mail featured a short work of fiction by Preston Manning . Titled "2018: The new health care", it...

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About Me

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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