The Dusty Bookcase

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

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11 August 2026

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

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...

26 December 2025

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2025 (and five gifts!)

This year, Simon Thomas of Stuck in a Book and Tea or Books fame made a fourth stab at what he refers to as "Project 24," his go...

22 May 2023

Petticoat Discipline, Please

The Tempestuous Petticoat [ A Chicago Princess ] Robert Barr London: Collins, [1908] 200 pages Proper Englishman Rupert Tremorne serves as p...

01 September 2021

The Prince Classics Robert Barr (Monsarrat mentioned)

A brief follow-up to last week's post on One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame . Prince Classics is new to me, but has quick...

23 August 2021

Double Fantasy

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame Robert Barr New York: Stokes, 1896 219 pages Novellas both, "One Day's Courtship...

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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. 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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