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Introducing The Index: A Substack with notes on The Innocent Canadian

January 18, 2026

With just a few months before the launch of my next novel, The Innocent Canadian, I have launched a Substack newsletter which serializes, alphabetically, notes on all the influences that informed and inspired the writing of this new work.

Here is the first entry, below. You can also find it here: https://johdelacourt.substack.com/p/w...

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