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Showing posts with label McClelland (Jack). Show all posts
Showing posts with label McClelland (Jack). Show all posts
15 October 2026

Oh, Little Man!

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Chipmunk Len Peterson Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1949 299 pages Claude Widgewood  specializies in buns  at Toronto's Modern Bake...
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18 December 2017

Yeah, I Know the Muffled Man

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The Mystery of the Muffled Man Max Braithwaite Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 160 pages Fifty-five years ago, The Mystery...
11 July 2016

The Paratrooper, the Professor and the Publisher: The Nasty Public Battle Over The Quebec Plot

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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...
31 August 2015

Langevin's Masterpiece; McClelland's Disappointment

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Orphan Street [ Une Chaîne dans le parc ] André Langevin [trans., Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 287 pages ...
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22 July 2015

Hugh Garner: Article Lost, Article Found

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Toronto: Ryerson, 1968 Markhan, ON: PaperJacks, 1983 Toronto: Dundurn, 2011 A Bo...
09 March 2015

Dirty Old Town

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The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...
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22 January 2015

Brian Moore: The Last of a Paperback Writer

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Murder in Majorca Michael Bryan [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Dell, 1957 158 pages This review now appears, revised and rewr...
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01 March 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Norman Levine Accuses Canadian Booksellers of Censorship

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The Globe & Mail , 30 May 1959 A baffled reviewer: Jean Swanson in  The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , 20 December 1958
27 August 2012

Advertising Norman Levine

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Jack McClelland never tried to hide his dislike for Norman Levine's Canada Made Me ; that his house acted as Canadian distributor wa...
26 August 2012

Recognizing Norman Levine

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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...
16 January 2012

The Mystery Writer Mystery Unravels

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'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry'  pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...
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10 January 2011

NOT FOR RESALE

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