The Dusty Bookcase

Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...

In November 1926, F.R. Scott was called to the offices of McGill University principal Sir Arthur Currie. The man behind the great victor...

Irving Layton, Milton Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel and Aviva Layton, Foster Poetry Conference,, October 1963 Off to the Eastern T...

The first day of National Poetry Month seems a good time to mention my forthcoming book  The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of...

Montreal in Verse:      An Anthology of English Poetry by Montreal Poets [Leo Cox, ed] [Montreal]: Writers of the Poetry Group of ...

Audio of my recent conversation with Nigel Beale has just been posted here at the Literary Tourist . Mordecai Richler, A.J.M. Smith, ...

That they pretend to know me irritates. I write here of Alibris, the self-described "premier online marketplace for independent...

This coming Thursday, 13 October, will see the dedication of a plaque in memory of F.R. Scott at the chapel of Montreal's St James th...

My most valuable book (I think). My favourite book (I know).

A very fine column by Mike Boone on St James the Apostle's Writers' Chapel from yesterday's Gazette : City's Great Wri...

The air is heavy with "Canadian" topics, And Smith, Harper, Gingrich, Vitter, Beck, Are measured for their faith in Reaganomic...

Yesterday marked the beginning of Freedom to Read Week; I spent much of it stripping wallpaper. Truth be told, I don't much feel lik...

Six months ago, I criticized the Book and Periodical Council's Freedom of Expression Committee for, amongst other things, its failure t...

Youngsters David Lewis and A. M. Klein Recognition today of David Lewis , né Losz, born sometime around one hundred years ago in Svisloch,...