The Dusty Bookcase

A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...

I'm honoured to have been asked by the  Globe & Mail  to write an obituary of poet, critic, journalist, biographer, and lexicographe...

An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...

Canadian Notes & Queries number 86 has arrived, bringing with it all kinds of goodness from Caroline Adderson, Mike Barnes, Nigel B...

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries landed in my mail box on Friday – a few days late owing, I suspect, to an ill-tempered sor...

Fetish Girl Sylvia Bayer [pseud. John Glassco] New York: Venus Library, 1972 I usually don't pay much attention to dedicati...