The Library Issue (#86, Winter 2012)
Contents:
ABOUT LIBRARIES
- Introduction by Alex Good
- Library Two Point No by Nicole Dixon
- Library and Archives Canada: History and the Realpolitik by Nigel Beale
- Is Digitization Preservation?, or, Canadians Aren’t Stupid by Jason Dickson
- Katz Lecture by Ben McNally
THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
- John Glassco: A Personal and Working Library
by Brian Busby
POETRY
- Three Poems by Evan Jones
FEATURES
- The Art of Poetry by James Pollock
- New Solitudes 2: David Adams Richards by Alex Good
- From Self-Absorbed to World-Engaged by Sharon English
- It’s a Big, Big, Big, Big, Big Book’s World by Finn Harvor
- Duvets and Demons by Mike Barnes
- Make-Believe Books and Imaginary Libraries:
From Rabelais to Seth by Jeet Heer
THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
- Leon Rooke’s “Adolpho’s Disappeared and
We Haven’t a Clue Where to Find Him”
by Aaron Costain
FICTION
- Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen by Caroline Adderson
USED AND RARE
- Secrets of the Book Trade Number 3:
Modern Firsts
by David Mason
REVIEWS
- Emily Donaldson on Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead
- Bruce Whiteman on Ruth Panofsky’s The Literary Legacy of Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture
- Mark Sampson on Richard Stursberg’s The Tower of Babble
- Steven W. Beattie on Pasha Malla’s People Park
- Eve Christie on Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
- Sarah Neville on The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 edited by Priscila Uppal
- Brian Busby on Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model
CNQ COLLECTION
- Letter #26 by Darryl Joel Berger