The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 May 2026

Of Problem Children and Adolescent Angst

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Sunburst Phyllis Gotlieb New York: Fawcett, 1964 160 pages Sorrel Park is no place to live, but this wasn't always so. A smallish city n...
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12 August 2024

Murder at Expo 67: A Complete Mystery Novel?

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A short follow-up to last week's post on Janet Gregory Vermandel's So Long at the Fair . So Long at the Fair,  Janet Gregory Vermand...
06 August 2024

An Expo 67 Murder Mystery?

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So Long at the Fair Janet Gregory Vermandel New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968 186 pages Canadian publishers really messed up with Expo 67;  McClell...
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07 February 2022

The Incomplete Repent at Leisure

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A follow-up to last month's post on Joan Walker's Repent at Leisure . Repent at Leisure Joan Walker The Star Weekly , 5 October 195...
18 April 2021

Arthur Stringer Unshackled (then bowdlerized)

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The Wife Traders: A Tale of the North Arthur Stringer Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936 319 pages Tooloona: A Novel of the North Arthur Stri...
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13 January 2020

That Old Black Magician

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The Black Magician R.T.M. Scott New York: Triangle, 1938 244 pages The Black Magician  is the first Aurelius Smith novel, but it doe...
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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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