The Dusty Bookcase

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

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13 April 2026

Bringing It All Back Home

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  I Was Going Anyway Robert Switzer New York: Macmillan, 1961 121 pages Robert Switzer flew under my radar for decades, it was only last mon...
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30 March 2026

The Lady Vanishes (again and again)

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Wedded for a Week; or, The Unseen Bridegroom May Agnes Fleming London: Milner, [n.d.] 248 pages We begin on a dark and stormy November night...
20 March 2026

Tales of Terror, Torment, and... Charm?

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The Torrent  [ Le torrent ] Anne Hébert [trans Gwendolyn Moore] Montreal: Harvest House, 1973 141 pages Anne Hébert completed  Le torrent  i...
08 March 2026

Old Novels and the Women Who Owned Them

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Last year, I participated in CrowdsourceHerBook: Women's book history and participatory science – an experiment . Overseen by Charlotte ...
23 February 2026

The Colony of Unrequited Nightmares

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Portrait in Fear [ Mystery of Cedar Valley ] Vera Henry New York: Caravelle, 1964 160 pages I expected little of  Portrait in Fear, the   l...
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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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