The Dusty Bookcase

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

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08 September 2026

Our Little Life: Dressmaker Meet Cheesemonger

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Our Little Life: A Novel of To-Day J.G. Sime London: Grant Richards, 1921 394 pages Jessie Georgina Sime's debut novel begins with a tal...
24 August 2026

Looking Back on Lot's Wife

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Lot's Wife [ La Femme de Loth ] Monique Bosco [trans John Glassco] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975 151 pages De temps à autre, ...
14 August 2026

Fun With Translation!

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Day fourteen of Women in Translation Month and I've yet to participate. What with car troubles, appliance breakdowns, other unforeseen ...
11 August 2026

Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years: A Top Ten Tuesday List

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Tuesdays begin like any other day. I rise before the sun, make a carafe of coffee, then return to bed to read The New York Times on my lap...
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05 August 2026

Between Exhaustion and Expression

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Shackles Madge Macbeth New York: Waterson, 1927 282 pages The first three pages of Shackles  take the form of a letter written by the author...
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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. 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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