The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Saunders. Show all posts
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07 August 2023

Victorian Ladies in Day-Glo Green and Orange

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Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press,  Silenced Sextet  received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...
06 December 2021

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2021... and much more!

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A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...
21 December 2020

Best Books of 1920: Beware the Bolshevik Poets

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The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...
01 March 2020

The Most Contentious Title in Canadian Literature

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Pussy Black-Face Marshall Saunders Boston: Page, 1913 Related posts: Pierre Berton as Casey's Scary Uncle The Ugliest Canadi...
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26 December 2019

The Very Best Reads of a Very Strange Year

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It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...
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20 November 2019

Beautiful Joe: Now with 30% Less Violence!

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Beautiful Joe       (Modern Abridged Edition) Marshall Saunders Racine, WI: Whitman, [c. 1965] 254 pages Whitman is the first pu...
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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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