Brian Busby is the author of A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer. His blog, The Dusty Bookcase, focuses on Canadian literature’s neglected, forgotten, and ignored. He serves on the Board of the Writers’ Chapel Trust.
June 4, 2013
You don’t hear Packard’s name in Montreal these days, but a century ago he was the city’s bestselling novelist. His fame was such that British publisher Hodder & Stoughton took to substituting the usual author credit with slogans like “It’s hard to beat PACKARD”.