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

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Showing posts with label Morris (Eric Cecil). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morris (Eric Cecil). Show all posts
26 December 2019

The Very Best Reads of a Very Strange Year

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It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...
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19 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part III: The Squeaking Wheel

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Final words on  A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...
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12 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part II: Le Dernier Voyage

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Le dernier voyage: Un roman de la Gaspésie       [ A Voice is Calling ] Eric C. Morris [trans. Martine Hébert-Duguay] Montreal: Chant...
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05 August 2019

Bach to the Future: A Voice is Calling

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A Voice is Calling Eric Cecil Morris Montreal: B.D. Simpson, 1945 487 pages The strangest novel I've read this year, I strug...
02 January 2018

10 Best Book Buys of 2017 (one of which was a gift)

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Last year was meant to be one of great austerity. By rights, the 2017 edition of this annual list should be the weakest yet. There were ...
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27 December 2011

A Quiet Revolution and Still Cowards Complain

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The Squeaking Wheel John Mercer [pseud. Eric Cecil Morris] n.p.: Rubicon, 1966 103 pages This review now appears, rev...
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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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