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Showing posts with label Swan Publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swan Publishing. Show all posts
06 August 2024

An Expo 67 Murder Mystery?

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So Long at the Fair Janet Gregory Vermandel New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968 186 pages Canadian publishers really messed up with Expo 67;  McClell...
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15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

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Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...
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13 May 2010

Serving Up Louis Riel

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A few final words on Swan Publishing. The company put out only four books by Canadian authors, but this wasn't one of them. A shame ...
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10 May 2010

Gay Swans

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John Cleland never wrote a sequel to Fanny Hill , nor did he publish a book called Memoirs of a Male Prostitute . What we have here is ...
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08 May 2010

Anything for a Buck (or Thereabouts)

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Well, will you look at what I found at the local Salvation Army Thrift Store. You don't see much erotica in charity shops; I'm prett...
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06 March 2009

The Poet Mayor of Toronto

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The Mackenzie Poems William Lyon Mackenzie & John Robert Colombo Toronto: Swan, 1966 A great deal is being made today over T...
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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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