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

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Showing posts with label Moffatt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moffatt. Show all posts
26 December 2023

The Best Reads of 2023: Publishers Take Note

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The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...
14 March 2023

James Moffatt Wins the Race

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The Marathon Murder James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1972 124 pages On January 12, 1972, Canadian writer James Moffatt appeared on...
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30 May 2022

Walking in on Virginia Box and Baird Rodd

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The Girl From H.A.R.D.: Virginia Box and the "Unsatisfied" James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1974 112 pages  I first visi...
02 December 2020

Nazis Threaten from Beyond the Grave!

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The Sleeping Bomb James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1970 125 pages Jim used to say, "It's a business, it's the way I m...
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06 April 2020

The Queer Queen Kong

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Queen Kong James Moffatt London: Everest, 1977 172 pages James Moffatt ranks as one of Canada's most prolific novelists – secon...
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06 December 2019

The Twenty Best Book Buys of 2019

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Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...
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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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