The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Berton. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Berton. Show all posts

07 April 2018

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 150 Years

He has gone from us, and it will be long ere we find such a happy mixture of eloquence and wisdom, wit and earnestness. His was no arti...

21 April 2017

CNQ Scores National Magazine Award Noms

Word from Toronto yesterday that the Canadian Notes & Queries "Games Issue" has been nominated for a National Magazine Aw...

12 April 2016

Tour de Force Reawakens!

Word comes from Canadian Notes & Queries headquarters that my column about Pierre Berton and Charles Templeton's Tour de Forc...

04 April 2016

Passing Go with Canadian Notes & Queries

Ce soir à Windsor , the launch of Canadian Notes & Queries #95. "The Games Issue", it features contributions by Tobias Ca...

22 March 2013

Dining with Mister Dressup

Air Fare: The Entertainers Entertain Allan Gould Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1984 Okay, so I never dined with Mr Dressup, but I did on...

27 August 2012

Advertising Norman Levine

Jack McClelland never tried to hide his dislike for Norman Levine's Canada Made Me ; that his house acted as Canadian distributor wa...

17 February 2011

Pierre Berton as Casey's Scary Uncle

Adventures of a Columnist Pierre Berton Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967

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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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