The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 August 2025

A 'Japanese' Nightingale: Winnifred Eaton at 150

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A Japanese Nightingale Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 226 pages Onoto Watanna was her own creation. She was not a Ja...
18 August 2025

A Pulp Writer's Challenge to Canadians

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Original Detective Stories Volume 1, Number 1 April 1948 Can a magazine written entirely by one person be considered a book? Of course not, ...
05 August 2025

The Urban Leacock

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Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 310 pages On my most recent visit to Montreal I ...
24 July 2025

Sunshine Scandals of a Little Town

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A View of the Town Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1954 269 pages There is no town of Inverness on Nova ...
02 July 2025

All His Troubles Seemed So Far Away

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Murder Began Yesterday Lee Johnson [Lilian Beatrice Johnson] 191 pages London: Gifford, 1966 We begin with what is perhaps the worst first s...
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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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