The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Bombardier Guide to Canadian Authors. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Bombardier Guide to Canadian Authors. Show all posts

30 September 2025

Ted Mann's Pulp Fiction

Crimes; or: I'm Sorry Sir, But We Do Not Sell Handguns to Junkies Vicar Vicars [Ted Mann] Vancouver: Pulp, 1973 62 pages Ted Mann die...

28 November 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Z is for Zink (Again)

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Uprooted Lubor Zink Toronto: Longmans Ca...

25 June 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: E is for Eaton

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

30 December 2013

Z is for Zink, Lubor J.

Has there ever been so underappreciated a writer as Lubor J. Zink? Was ever one so misunderstood? Even enthusiastic supporter Peter Wort...

18 July 2013

B is for the Bombardier Guide to Canadian Authors

My introduction to Canadian literature came in the pages of National Lampoon . No joke. Canada's writers weren't taught in the...

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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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