The Dusty Bookcase

There was a Brian Busby who lived two blocks from the house in which I grew up. Our paths never crossed – he was eight years older – but...

The October 1912 issue of Canada Monthly , purchased late last year for the humour – black humour – of its cover: Agnes Deans Cameron...

Copies of The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco , edited and annotated by yours truly, arrived at our home  on Frid...

My introduction to Canadian literature came in the pages of National Lampoon . No joke. Canada's writers weren't taught in the...

Another July brings another  Quill & Quire  Fall Preview issue and the usual embarrassment of promised riches. Nothing from me, I&...

Flee the Night in Anger Dan Keller [pseud. Louis Kaufman] Toronto: Studio Publications, 1952 The name's Danny Keller, ex-convic...

I complain. The narrow focus of this exercise – this casual exploration of our suppressed, ignored and forgotten – has prevented comme...