Number 82 (Spring/Summer 2011)

Contents:

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

• Leah Rosenberg’s The Errand Runner
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• Six Poems by Laura Lush

FEATURES

• Books Do Furnish a Room 
  by John Metcalf
• Auctions by David Mason
• Collecting Mordecai Richler by Michael Darling
• Six Ways to Woo a Reader by Charles Foran
• Collecting Canadiana by Nigel Beale
• On Collecting Canadiana of the Forties and Fifties
  by Jim Fitzpatrick
• Jocko, the Little Scotsman by Seth
• The Trials of Norman Elder by Ian Young
• Genetically Modified Toads, Factory Songs and Fake Gardens
  by Darryl Whetter

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

• Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook, as adapted by Zach Worton

FICTION

• Problem in the Hamburger Room
  by Laura Boudreau

THE SHORT STORY

• Barbara Gowdy’s “We So Seldom Look on Love”
  by Steven W. Beattie

WORD OF MOUTH

• Back to Earth by Emily Donaldson

REVIEWS

• Randy Boyagoda on Mordecai: The Life and Times by Charles Foran
• Nyla Matuk on How to be a Bush Pilot by Claudia Dey
  and Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar by Myna Wallin
•  Shane Neilson on Beauty and Sadness by Andre Alexis
• Alex Good on An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English
  edited by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown
• Jesse Patrick Ferguson on Windstorm by Joe Denham;
  Expressway by Sina Queyras; and Desert Rose, Butterfly Storm by David Manicom
• Hannah Brooks-Motl on Lookout: Poems by John Steffler

CNQ COLLECTION

• Daubers Press by Amanda Jernigan & John Haney