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Showing posts with label Munro (Alice). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munro (Alice). Show all posts
19 May 2015

CBC's Awful List, Radio-Canada's Disheartening List and Perhaps the Best Book List I've Ever Seen

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It's been nearly a year since CBC Books unveiled its crummy 100 NOVELS THAT MAKE YOU PROUD TO BE CANADIAN. Don't know about yo...
18 August 2014

The Return of the Amazon Customer Review

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Okay, so they never went away – but they did from this blog. I had a grand old time a few years back tearing strips off  homophobes , bo...
20 May 2014

Checking Out an Attractive 56-Year-Old Montrealer

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The Montrealer. vol. 32, no. 5 (May 1958) I don't remember much of  The Montrealer . I was in elementary school when it folded and...
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03 February 2014

Still Reading Richard Rohmer. Is Alice Munro?

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More than a month into the New Year and I'm still at it . So are my pals Chris Kelly and Stanley Whyte . The books themselves ha...
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08 November 2013

Munro, Bellow, Millar, Macdonald and Identity

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I Die Slowly [ The Dark Tunnel ] Kenneth Millar New York: Lion, 1955 222 pages This review now appears, revised and rewrit...
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24 May 2013

The Year of Grade School Readers, Cute Kittens and Dead Anglos Hanging in the Streets of Montreal

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That would be 1968, the very same year in which Canadian Notes & Queries made its debut. It was my honour to become the first co...
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29 May 2012

Canada's Most Popular Writers (25 Years Ago)?

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Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...
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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...