The Dusty Bookcase

The Mystery of the Muffled Man Max Braithwaite Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 160 pages Fifty-five years ago, The Mystery...

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...

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

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

The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...

Murder in Majorca Michael Bryan [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Dell, 1957 158 pages This review now appears, revised and rewr...

The Globe & Mail , 30 May 1959 A baffled reviewer: Jean Swanson in  The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , 20 December 1958

Jack McClelland never tried to hide his dislike for Norman Levine's Canada Made Me ; that his house acted as Canadian distributor wa...

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries landed in my mail box on Friday – a few days late owing, I suspect, to an ill-tempered sor...

'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry'  pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...

Many years ago, a publisher friend told me that he never took home advance readers copies. "Such ugly things", he sniffed. Tru...

An advert published twenty-five years ago this month in Books in Canada finds McClelland and Stewart under the sway of the "compute...

The Long November James Benson Nablo New York: Dutton, 1946 I'm going to step out on a limb here and state, with confidence, t...