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

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Showing posts with label Star Weekly Magazine. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Star Weekly Magazine. Show all posts

27 March 2023

A Crooked Cousin in a Cunning Cottage

Dove Cottage Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] London: Abelard-Schulman, 1958 192 pages Jan Hilliard's third novel, its curtain rises on th...

07 February 2022

The Incomplete Repent at Leisure

A follow-up to last month's post on Joan Walker's Repent at Leisure . Repent at Leisure Joan Walker The Star Weekly , 5 October 195...

25 January 2022

On the High Heels of Pleasure

Repent at Leisure Joan Walker Toronto: Ryerson, 1957 284 pages Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may ...

20 December 2015

Romance and the Psychopath's Daughter

No Pattern for Life Frances Shelley Wees The Star Weekly, 11 December 1955 Not so much novel as novella, No Pattern for Life came a...

17 April 2010

Heart of Goldie

No Tears for Goldie Jack C. Fleming [pseud. Thomas P. Kelley] Toronto: Arrow, 1950 Cover copy paints No Tears for Goldie as &...

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About Me

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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