The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Books in Canada. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Books in Canada. Show all posts

13 August 2014

Richard Rohmer Recycles (Again)

Starmageddon Richard Rohmer Toronto: Irwin, 1986 Starmageddon takes place in a future past. We know this because the Office of the ...

28 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Condemned by Coren

How Do You Spell Abducted? Cherylyn Stacey Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1996 Newspaper columnists don't always write th...

29 May 2012

Canada's Most Popular Writers (25 Years Ago)?

Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...

01 August 2010

Atwood et al. Shill for Apple

An advert published twenty-five years ago this month in Books in Canada finds McClelland and Stewart under the sway of the "compute...

18 July 2010

Before Adobe Illustrator

Books in Canada , December 198 3

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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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