The Dusty Bookcase

My recent conversation with the charming Julie Wilson. Pulp novels, literary hoaxes, the Edwardian John Glassco, and the neglected and f...

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...

Love Affair with a Cougar Lyn Hancock Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1978 Related post: To the Lighthouse!

A dry study in international relations? I thought so when I unearthed this book last month. After all, author W.G. Hardy was a professor...

Satan's Bell Joy Carroll Markham, ON: Pocket Books, 1976 190 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, i...

Reading The Queers of New York a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about Jock Carroll, under whose editorial direction the book was p...

From the archives, these handbills and related photographs from my aborted career as a concert photographer. I never was serious and as...