The Dusty Bookcase

A follow-up to last week's post on A Japanese Nightingale .   On 19 November 1903, A Japanese Nightingale , dramatist William Young'...

The Right of Way Gilbert Parker New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ c. 1907] 419 pages I don't like it when a novel opens with a line of d...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Testimonial Dinner Adele Wiseman Toronto: Pr...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build ...

Behind the Beyond      and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913 Early Leacock ...

Freedom to Read Week Hump Day. Have you bought your banned book yet? If not, may I suggest Eight Men Speak ? Written in 1933, reissued j...

Canadian artistic directors! A half-century ago, your predecessors received the above. I've taken the liberty of transcribing...

Thirty Years at Stratford Robertson Davies Stratford, ON: Stratford Festival, 1982 Christopher Plummer left town a few days ago, sig...

Zone Marcel Dubé Hier, les enfants dansaient Gratien Gélinas Les Beaux Dimanches Marcel Dubé The first three volumes in the Collecti...

Like the Oscar Peterson Trio, I get requests. Many come from those seeking information on the great Brian Moore or the tragic Maria Monk, bu...

The Globe & Mail , 15 May 1974 Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In Amazon Customer Review: 'unde...

Actor and playwright Gratien Gélinas was born 100 years ago today in the small town of St-Tite-de-Champlain, some fifty kilometres north of ...