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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
20 January 2025

The Boy Who Cried Truth

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The Calgary Herald , 26 October 1963 The Weird World of Wes Beattie John Norman Harris New York: Harper & Row, 1963 216 pages Wes Beatti...
15 January 2025

The Weird Covers of Wes Beattie

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Two weeks into 2025 and I'm only now starting in on my first novel of the New Year... and so late in the day! I've wanted to read Th...
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27 March 2023

A Crooked Cousin in a Cunning Cottage

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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

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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

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Repent at Leisure Joan Walker Toronto: Ryerson, 1957 284 pages Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may ...
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20 December 2015

Romance and the Psychopath's Daughter

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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

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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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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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