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

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Showing posts with label Orvis. Show all posts
24 June 2024

Fifteen Favourite Quebec Novels pour la Fête

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For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...
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27 September 2021

Six Forgotten Novelists at the Atwater Library

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This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...
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07 June 2021

Criminal Notes & Queries

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The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...
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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18 July 2019

Reviving a Searching Novel about Drug Addiction

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Kenneth Orvis'  The Damned and the Destroyed  arrives in bookstores this week. The fourteenth in Ricochet Books' series of ...
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30 October 2017

CNQ at 100

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It doesn't seem right to describe the new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries as special – every issue is special – but this on...
29 June 2017

More News from a Messy Desk in a Dusty Room

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I wrote in the previous post that changes were afoot... and now they've begun. Starting this week, most new reviews of our suppress...
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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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