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

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02 June 2025

Towards a Canada of Light

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Looking Forward:  The Strange Experience of the Rev.    Fergus McCheyne Rev. Hugh Pedley, B.A., D.D. Toronto: Briggs, 1913 294 pages The cov...
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02 December 2024

The Globe 100 133 of 1924: Hammond's Organ

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The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may ...
09 October 2024

Pearl White is The White Moll!

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The Moving Picture World 2 October 1920 A follow-up to last week's post on Frank L. Packard's The White Moll . TheWhite Moll was the...
01 October 2024

A Feminine Jimmie Dale?

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The White Moll Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 306 page s Walt Disney failed to interest NBC in  Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gr...
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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18 December 2023

The Globe's Best Books of 1923: 'Canadian Authors Can Be Read With Pleasure, Profit and Pride'

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The Globe , 10 December 1923 Three men feature on the first page of the 1923 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the 'Globe 100'...
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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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