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To Nie Kanada

Our country through the eyes of others

Sisterhood of the Secret Pantaloons

Suffragists and their descendants

Past Imperfect

J. L. Granatstein’s prescient warning

James Lindsay

James Lindsay works in publishing in Toronto. He is the author of Only Insistence and other books.

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James Lindsay

Confessions of a Bookseller

You can take my word for it March 2025
For fifteen years I was a bookseller in Toronto. I would spend four to eight hours a day, three to six days a week talking about books, most of which I’d never read. I had my tastes and my preferred genres, but I also tried to keep up on what was selling well and what was winning…