The Dusty Bookcase

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

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04 February 2026

Let the Right One In

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The Invisible Gate Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949 241 pages I met Constance Beresford-Howe at the 1991 opening of a Tor...
08 December 2025

The 1925 Globe 110: Less Motoring, More Reading

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Much to my dismay, this year's Globe 100 was published late last month. I thought I'd made it clear last year that November is too e...
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14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

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The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...
08 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 3): After the Harvest

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The third of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . The only film adaptation of  Wild Geese...
01 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 1): Wild Geese

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The first of three addendums to the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . Released in the autumn of 1927, Wild Gee...
07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

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The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...
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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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