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

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01 June 2021

Little Willie, Willie Won't Go Home

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Willie the Squowse Ted Allan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 57 pages What I admire most about Ted Allan was his ability to take an ...
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24 July 2020

Canada Reads 2020: "Shouts Out to Tara!"

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After much delay, Canada Reads 2020 has come and gone. Congrats to Samra Habib, whose memoir  We Have Always Been Here won the game...
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26 February 2020

Reading Gérard Bessette on His Hundredth

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Not for Every Eye [ Le libraire ] Gérard Bessette [trans. Glen Shortliffe]  Toronto: Macmillan, 1962 98 pages Yesterday marked the...
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25 October 2013

P is for Plus ça change...

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National Post  Editor-at-Large Diane Francis has been making the rounds flogging her latest. I've felt some sympathy. Her book,  Me...
02 January 2013

Mr. Child's Simple Story of Dramatic Suspense

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Mr. Ames Against Time Philip Child Toronto: Ryerson, 1949 244 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new ...
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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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