The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 January 2019

The Dusty Bookcase: Ten Years, 100 Titles

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The Dusty Bookcase turns ten today. How is that possible? What was meant to be a six-year journey through the obscure and forgotten titl...
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13 September 2017

Ten Dusty Favourites from The Dusty Bookcase

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Brian shares ten noteworthy finds on his bibliophilic journey, including gossip about the Eaton family, radish-heavy dialogue, and ...
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29 July 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in the Toronto Star

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Not my pool, sadly, but that belonging to a friend and old work colleague. Today's  Saturday Star features a piece by Nick Patch on ...
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09 June 2014

Still Strange (if a little less so)

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The Gynecologist Sol Allen [pseud. Barney Allen] New York: Pyramid, 1969 I imagine publication of The Gynecologist provided c...
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16 December 2013

A Last-Minute Slogan, "Give Books"

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Coaching courtesy of an old Eaton's ad published in the 23 December 1933 Globe & Mail . The venerable department store recomme...
28 April 2013

Our Strangest Book Advertisement?

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Following Tuesday and Thursday's posts: I can't leave Sol Allen's  Toronto Doctor  without presenting this advert...
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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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