The Dusty Bookcase
A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
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21 May 2009
Hey Kids! Comix!
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I imagine that there is no more cautionary a tale in comicdom than that of Toronto-born Joe Shuster. Things seemed to have got off to such a...
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18 May 2009
Queen Victoria and He
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A song for Victoria Day. Leonard Cohen 's words to our celebrated monarch, "mean governess of the huge pink maps", f...
17 May 2009
Elizabeth Smart Burned and Banned?
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Reading The Dead Seagull last week, I turned repeatedly to By Heart , Rosemary Sullivan's very fine life of Elizabeth Smart . The...
14 May 2009
Barker's Bird
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The Dead Seagull George Barker New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, [1950] Not a Canadian novel, but worthy of mention in this n...
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08 May 2009
Richardson's End
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So big, so close, so powerful, and yet New York doesn't really feature much in Canadian literature. The city rarely serves as a setting,...
02 May 2009
The American Version: The N Word
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I arrive today in New York, my first foray into post-Bush America (until Jeb, that is). It's been several years since I last visited t...
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