The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 October 2023

Whither the Canadian American Bestseller?

Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine outsold eve...

17 January 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: U is for Underwood

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The English Governess Miles Underwood [John ...

02 May 2016

The Barefoot Fugitive and Other Mysteries

The Wild Olive [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1910 Basil King wrote the bestselling novel of 1909. Who knew? Hardly anyone. Th...

04 November 2009

Not Very Occult

The Inner Shrine: A Novel of Today Anonymous [Basil King] New York: Grosset & Dunlop, n.d. On 28 July 1912, the New York Times published...

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About Me

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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