Number 98 (Winter 2017)

Contents:

THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• Ayn’s House of Dreams
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• Four Poems by Suzannah Showler

FEATURES

• “Bemused and Embattled: An Author Questions the Creative Process”
  by Marianne Apostolides
• “The Neal Cassady of New France:
  Was Etienne Brulé Canada’s Greatest Explorer?”
  by Jim Christy
• “Unwanted Parts:
  Class Unconsciousness in Debris and Waste”
  by André Forget
• “A Farm of One’s Own:
  May Sarton and the Burden of Solitude”
  by Dilia Narduzzi
• “Missed Connections” by Leone Brander
• “The Three Vices of Canadian Poetry”
  by Max Beerbohm
• “Paris Confessions” by Deborah Dundas

FIRST READING

Surfacing Resurfaces by Emily M. Keeler

REREADING

• “An Animal Affair:
  Crawling Back to Marian Engel’s Bear”
  by Richard Kelly Kemick

THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels

• Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  by Pascal Girard

THE ANTIQUARIUM
A series of interviews with Canada’s used-book sellers

• Vol. 4: Leah Spafford, interviewed by Jason Dickson

FICTION

• “The Last Trumpet” by K.D. Miller

USED AND RARE

• “Bibliographical Journeys:
  The Bookseller as Saviour”
  by David Mason

REVIEWS

• The Essential D.G. Jones, reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
• Maxime Raymond Bock’s Baloney reviewed by Bardia Sinaee
• Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book reviewed by Sarah Neville

EXHUMATIONS

• Berlitz Illustrations, presented by Stephen Fowler