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

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Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts

11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...

07 February 2022

The Incomplete Repent at Leisure

A follow-up to last month's post on Joan Walker's Repent at Leisure . Repent at Leisure Joan Walker The Star Weekly , 5 October 195...

16 May 2016

But Why Would You Want Him To?: The Very Strange Story of a Delusional Abandoned Wife

He Will Return Helen Dickson Reynolds Toronto: Ryerson, 1959 Newly-minted art school graduate Constance Manning faces the challenge ...

24 November 2014

The Dreams That Things Are Made Of

Farewell My Dreams [La fin des songes] Robert Élie [trans. Irene Coffin] Toronto: Ryerson, 1954 Farewell My Dreams isn't a titl...

07 January 2013

Anyone Care about the Ryerson Fiction Award?

It's not found in The Canadian Encyclopedia , The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature or W.H. New's Companion to Canad...

08 November 2011

Canada's Great War Novelists: Will R. Bird

William Richard Bird (1891-1984) Author of Private Timothy Fergus Clancy Related posts: Canada's Great War Novelists: Peregrine Acland C...

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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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