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

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30 September 2013

Not Our Backwoods, Not Catharine Parr Traill

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Backwoods Hussy Hallan Whitney [pseud. Harry Whittington] New York: Original Novels, 1952
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07 February 2012

POD Cover of the Month: The Backwoods of Canada

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BiblioBazaar takes Catharine Parr Traill's cheery account of her life in our backwoods and turns it into Stalag 17 . I much prefe...
14 October 2011

POD Cover of the Month: Montreal for Tourists..

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Montreal for Tourists.. [ sic ] by the man known affectionately as "From Old Catalogue" Phelps – a proud publication of Charle...
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04 August 2010

Lovell's Legacy (and Its Besmirching)

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John Lovell was born two hundred years ago today. The most important Canadian publisher of the nineteenth century, I suppose he's best r...
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01 April 2010

Poetry, Pluck and Push

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National Poetry Month, a time for balloons, ice cream and marching bands. I risk spoiling the party by pointing out, yet again, that William...
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14 August 2009

A POD Publisher's Alternate Universe

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I've taken more than a few swipes at print on demand publishers. And why not? The industry has yet to complete its second decade and ...
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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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