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Showing posts with label Sinclair (Bertrand W.). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinclair (Bertrand W.). Show all posts
27 February 2023

Go West, Young Woman

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The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d] 251 pages In the summer of 1985, I bought a copy of The Oxford Compan...
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...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
12 February 2018

HBC as Murderers of Men and Killers of Dogs

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The Land of Frozen Suns Bertrand W. Sinclair Chicago: Donohue, 1910 309 pages A Scottish transplant by way of the United States, Be...
17 April 2015

Remembering Ron Scheer… on a Friday

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Ron Scheer died this past weekend. He was my teacher. We never met. A son of Nebraska, for more than four years Ron served as a patien...
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19 September 2014

Here's to Patti Abbott and Friday's Forgotten Books

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It's been well over six years since Patti Abbott launched Friday's Forgotten Books , a weekly round-up of blog posts dealing wi...
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25 August 2013

H is for Hoffer

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List 75: Canadian Literature Vancouver: William Hoffer, Bookseller, [1989?] In spite of his obvious weirdness I found myself liking h...
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02 December 2011

The Highest Compliments of the Season

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Now in the final month of the year, tradition dictates that I offer holiday gift suggestions – this time accompanied by bits and pieces ...