The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Riel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Riel. Show all posts
01 June 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: W is for Wiseman

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Testimonial Dinner Adele Wiseman Toronto: Pr...
02 May 2022

Ralph Connor's Canada Dry

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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police:    A Tale of the MacLeod Trail Ralph Connor [Charles W. Gordon] Toronto: Westminster, 191...
08 July 2013

A is for Amtmann

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I complain. The narrow focus of this exercise – this casual exploration of our suppressed, ignored and forgotten – has prevented comme...
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16 November 2010

Hanged 125 Years Ago Today

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Prophet of the New World, I Do the work of the Most High. I assert it with no pride. I live in humility. Is there any one to side With me? Y...
13 May 2010

Serving Up Louis Riel

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A few final words on Swan Publishing. The company put out only four books by Canadian authors, but this wasn't one of them. A shame ...
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12 June 2009

Bizarre Love Triangle

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The Story of Louis Riel, the Rebel Chief [J. E. Collins] Toronto: Rose, 1885 Instant books, those slapdash things designed to ca...
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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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