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Showing posts with label News Stand Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News Stand Library. Show all posts
25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

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The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages   Note:  The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...
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18 November 2024

There's a New Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

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Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's  Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street . The tit...
20 May 2024

A Poet's Pulp Novel

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The Winter of Time Raymond Holmes [Raymond Souster] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 160 pages Anyone looking for a good story is sure to b...
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19 September 2022

Martha Ostenso's Forgotten Masterpiece?

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And the Town Talked Martha Ostenso Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 159 pages The town is Bloomhill; the talk is of Elsbeth Payson. A few d...
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12 April 2022

Talking Ted Allan with Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

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The second of my two conversations with Leacock Medal scholar Dick Bourgeois-Doyle is now available here on Soundcloud . The topic is Ted Al...
11 June 2021

Love is a Long Shot on the Nose

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The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...
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01 June 2021

Little Willie, Willie Won't Go Home

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Willie the Squowse Ted Allan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 57 pages What I admire most about Ted Allan was his ability to take an ...
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09 October 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: K is for Kelley

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...