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

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Showing posts with label Montrose. Show all posts
22 April 2025

The Man with the Midas Touch

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Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...
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18 July 2023

The Body on Mount Royal: The Audiobook

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Summertime and the listenin' is easy. What better time to enjoy David Montrose's The Body on Mount Royal , the very first Ricochet a...
19 June 2023

Véhicule Press: Ten for Fifty

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Véhicule Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past weekend. One of eight people invited to speak at the celebration, I kept kept m...
12 December 2016

The Year's Best Books in Review – A.D. 2016; Featuring Three Titles Deserving Resurrection

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Still more than two weeks left in the year, but not too early for this list. Given my schedule these days, I know the book I'm readi...
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17 October 2016

A List of Montreal's Post-War Pulps: Second Shot

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Late last month, I was interviewed by CULT MTL for their cover story on Montreal pulp and the Ricochet Books series. The issue arrived ...
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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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