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

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26 December 2022

The Very Best Reads of 2022: Ladies First

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Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland ...
10 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 4: 'You' by Ram Spudd Stephen Leacock

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For the month,  the fourth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Ram Spudd, "one of nature's ge...
02 March 2022

Lunar Attractions; or, The Leacock I Like

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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock Toronto: Gundy, 1915 282 pages My introduction to Stephen Leacock came through a copy of  L...
06 February 2017

Professor Leacock Sets the Stage

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Behind the Beyond      and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913 Early Leacock ...
07 June 2016

Am I the Only One Laughing with Leacock?

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The Hohenzollerns in America;       With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities Stephen Leacock Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 191...
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28 October 2009

Politician Picks Playwright!

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The Greatest Englishman of History Arthur Meighen Toronto: S.B. Gundy/Oxford University Press, 1936 It's been eightee...
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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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