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

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14 December 2021

A Good Old Soldier

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Old Soldier Frederick Niven London: Collins, 1936 250 pages Stewart Reid lives in a small flat with his wife and two young sons in Edinburgh...
15 May 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: N is for Niven

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Old Soldier Frederick Niven London: Collins,...
07 December 2020

Ten Best Book Buys of 2020 (& Three Great Gifts)

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In years to come – presuming they come – I expect I'll look upon this beat-up copy of Arthur Beverley Baxter's  The Blower of Bubble...
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21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
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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