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New York to Muddy York April 9, 2021 Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson Scott McLaren Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada.University of Toronto Press (purchase at Amazon.ca) When we imagine those settlers to Upper Canada of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, we might imagine them as Susanna Moodie portrayed them in Roughing It in the Bush—illiterate farming drudges with no time for leisure and certainly none for reading. But...

Ask any historian of Canadian literature to name the country’s first literary agent and the response you’ll likely get is Matie Molinaro. Founder of the Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service, the Toronto-based Molinaro was at one time the only professional of her kind in the country. Her company was responsible for representing foundational CanLit authors – including Earle Birney, Harry Boyle, and Marshall McLuhan – from its establishment in 1950 through the 1970s, when other agents and authors’ representatives began to appear on the scene in force. But McGill University profe...