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

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04 July 2024

My Third Canadian Book of Lists List: The 10 Biggest Contributors (Featuring Clare Wallace!)

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Being the fourth post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists .   The greatest contributor is the taxpayer. Stat...
18 April 2018

In 1977, I Hope I Go to Heaven

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The Box Garden Carol Shields Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977 213 pages In 1977, I finished Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar ...
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06 February 2014

Unsettling Garners

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Hugh Garner's pseudonymous second novel,  Waste No Tears , goes to press next week, returning after a sixty-four year absence as par...
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23 August 2010

Amazon Customer Review: 'Reading Munroe'

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Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In Amazon Customer Review: 'undescribable and obscene' Amazon Cust...
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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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