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

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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