The Dusty Bookcase

Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title.  Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...

Arizona Argonauts H Bedford-Jones New York: Doubleday, 1923 120 pages Note: Arizona Argonauts is a novella infused with racial epithets. Re...

And the Town Talked Martha Ostenso Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 159 pages The town is Bloomhill; the talk is of Elsbeth Payson. A few d...

Lost House Frances Shelley Wees Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 192 pages Frances Shelley Wees runs hot and cold with me. I liked The Keys of My P...

My conversation with Joanna Braniff about Brian Moore's early pulp novels – part of last month's Lonely Passions: Brian Moore Centen...

This coming Thursday, August 19th, marks the start of  Lonely Passions: The Brian Moore Centenary Festival . A seven-day celebration organiz...

The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...

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

Thoughts this weekend have been with Nelson Ball, who died this past Friday. I first encountered Nelson as a poet, and later as a bookse...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

Doors of the Night Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922 297 pages The hero of this novel is a young man named Billy Kane. Rai...

Rebound Dick Diespecker Toronto: Harlequin, 1953 224 pages Handsome Stoney Martin and his plain wife Jane leave Toronto on a train ...