The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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02 December 2024

The Globe 100 133 of 1924: Hammond's Organ

The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may ...

25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages Note: The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...

18 November 2024

There's a New Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street . The tit...

12 November 2024

Last Words of a Raconteur

Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence [ Divers ] Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé [trans Jane Brierley] Montreal: V é hicule, ...

11 November 2024

Remembrance Day

André Louis Armand Hissink 26 June 1919, Batavia, Dutch East Indies - 1 January 2024, Perth, Ontario, Canada My grandfather. Merrickville, O...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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