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

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Showing posts with label Perrin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Perrin. Show all posts

17 July 2012

Talking Montreal Noir with Nigel Beale

Audio of my recent interview with Nigel Beale can be found here . Lots of talk about Brian Moore, Ted Allan, News Stand Library, Véhi...

29 June 2011

Another Tie, Another Place

The Canadian and America editions of Neil H. Perrin's Death Be My Destiny , both published by News Stand Library, both bearing covers...

25 April 2011

One Long, Tedious Suicide Note

Death Be My Destiny Neil H. Perrin [pseud. Danny Halperin] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 The most interesting thing about D...

26 December 2010

The 75-Year-Old Virgin and Others I Acquired

Published in 1935 by les Éditions du Quotidien, a first edition by one of the most important Canadian writers of the twentieth century. I...

11 December 2010

And These Were Her Magnificent Breasts

This was Joanna Niel [sic] H. Perrin [pseud. Danny Halperin] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 Of all the novels read this past y...

31 March 2010

Climax!: A Happy Ending

The second part of my review of Neil Perrin's The Door Between, this now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new book: Th...

29 March 2010

Toronto's Tortured Sexual Souls

The Door Between Neil H. Perrin [pseud. Danny Halperin] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages The first part o...

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About Me

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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