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

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Showing posts with label Palmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palmer. Show all posts
18 November 2024

There's a New Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

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Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's  Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street . The tit...
20 May 2024

A Poet's Pulp Novel

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The Winter of Time Raymond Holmes [Raymond Souster] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 160 pages Anyone looking for a good story is sure to b...
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15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

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Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...
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26 April 2021

Nothing Tops Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

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Recently arrived titles at Montreal's The Word Bookstore . Palmer's epic and the others depicted can be purchased through the store...
21 December 2016

A 1980s Duddy Kravitz?

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I Lost It All in Montreal Donna Steinberg New York: Avon, 1983 259 pages This review, revisited and revised, now appears in my...
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17 October 2016

A List of Montreal's Post-War Pulps: Second Shot

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Late last month, I was interviewed by CULT MTL for their cover story on Montreal pulp and the Ricochet Books series. The issue arrived ...
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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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