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

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Showing posts with label Novelizations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novelizations. Show all posts
21 August 2023

The Legs of Mary Roberts

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Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...
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12 October 2022

Quebec City Noir

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Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City  may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...
01 January 2021

Gordon Pinsent's Gift

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A Gift to Last Gordon Pinsent and Grahame Woods Toronto: Seal, 1978 215 pages Gordon Pinsent celebrated his ninetieth birthday last ...
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06 April 2020

The Queer Queen Kong

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Queen Kong James Moffatt London: Everest, 1977 172 pages James Moffatt ranks as one of Canada's most prolific novelists – secon...
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21 August 2015

The Neverending Story without a Name

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A follow-up to Monday's very long post on  The Story without a Name . Was it the longest? I can't be sure. This one will be shor...
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17 August 2015

Jazz Age Death Ray, Baby!

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The Story without a Name Arthur Stringer and Russell Holman New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924 The story without a name is not nea...
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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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