The Dusty Bookcase

This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...

Poldrate Street Garnett Weston New York: Messner, 1944 256 pages The first resident of Poldrate Street to die is Sarah Reckon. She's kil...

Canadian Illustrated News 28 September 1878 On the day of the 44th Canadian general election, verse from The Poems of Archibald Lampman (To...

You'd think Robert Fife might know a thing or two about the publishing world. His first book,  A Capital Scandal , co-authored by John W...

My conversation with Joanna Braniff about Brian Moore's early pulp novels – part of last month's Lonely Passions: Brian Moore Centen...

Emily Mernin's article "Montreal Noir, from Passion to Print" has been up on the  Read Quebec  site for some days now. It'...

  A brief follow-up to last week's post on One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame . Prince Classics is new to me, but has quick...