The Dusty Bookcase

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

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

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...

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

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

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

What follows fails. It was intended as a visual feast of first edition covers for every book written by the  mysterious Kenneth ...

Do you know this man? I've been slowly making my way through the complete works of Kenneth Orvis (a/k/a Kenneth Lemieux). Eight bo...

Hickory House Kenneth Orvis [pseud. Kenneth Lemieux] Toronto: Harlequin, 1956 Bookie Alfredo Rossi can see the writing on the ...