The Dusty Bookcase

A follow-up to last week's post on Hot Star . Alvin Schwartz's debut novel,  The Blowtop , was published in 1946 by Dial Press. It f...

Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title.  Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...

Final words on  A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...

Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal Michael Howard n.p.: The Author, 2017 375 pages My final year as a trick-or-treater was spent walk...

Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...

Verse for the one hundredth anniversary of the Halifax Explosion by Stanley Burton Fullerton of Amherst, Nova Scotia. A carpenter by tra...

Century-old verse by Stanley Burton Fullerton (1869-1952), resident of Amherst, Nova Scotia, from his self-published chapbook Poems (19...

"On the Drowning of a French-Canadian Laborer" by A.C. Stewart from his self-published tome  Dust and Ashes  (n.p., 1910). ...

On this Canada Day, still more English-language lyrics for 'O Canada'. These come courtesy of Violet Alice Clarke, from her 191...

An ode to the city, a tribute to Her Late Majesty, but more than anything a pitch to tourists, Victoria the Beautiful (self-publish...

Enough! J.V. Andrew Kitchener, ON: Andrew Books, 1988 153 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new boo...

Any magazine that looks like that has got to be great. The new Canadian Notes & Queries – number 91 – is just that. Between Seth...