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24 June 2024

Fifteen Favourite Quebec Novels pour la Fête

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For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...
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06 December 2021

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2021... and much more!

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A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...
29 October 2021

The Scotts of Quebec City

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Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...
08 March 2020

10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day

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One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...
18 April 2014

Claire Martin at the Start of a Quiet Revolution

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Best Man [Doux-amer] Claire Martin [pseud. Claire Montreuil; trans. David Lobdell] Ottawa: Oberon, [1983] Claire Martin turns one ...
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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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