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Showing posts with label Metcalf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metcalf. Show all posts
09 December 2024

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2024... and many gifts!

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What a year! On day two, while returning from a grocery run in nearby Brockville, I stopped at a thrift store and found first editions of Gi...
08 January 2024

Canadian Notes & Queries at 114, Véhicule Press at 50, and a Few Favourite Forthcoming Things

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A few days into the year and already a new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries . This one – number 114! – features writing by: Noelle All...
30 November 2023

Celebrating John Metcalf at 85

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This past Saturday, I joined a pubfull of people – yes, a pubfull – in downtown Ottawa to celebrate John Metcalf's 85th birthday. It wa...
18 July 2022

What Is a Canadian Fiction?

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Several months ago, The Dorchester Review  asked me to review David Staines'  A History of Canadian Fiction . Who am I to turn down an i...
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04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...
30 January 2021

Erring on The Terror of the Tar Sands

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A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...
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17 January 2019

A Novel Every Bit as Good as Its Title

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The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in my mailbox this week. I should've received it last month....
22 February 2018

Not to Be Confused with Bust Planet

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The new issue of  Canadian Notes & Queries has arrived, bringing with it my long promised review of W.E.D. Ross's  Lust Plane...
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