The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Bowdlerization. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Bowdlerization. Show all posts

15 January 2025

The Weird Covers of Wes Beattie

Two weeks into 2025 and I'm only now starting in on my first novel of the New Year... and so late in the day! I've wanted to read Th...

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...

21 March 2017

An Award-Winning Novelist's Bowdlerized Debut

The Pillar of Fire Gordon Green Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 The Praying Mantis H. Gordon Green Fredericton: Brunswi...

18 April 2016

Small-town Boy Makes Good, Founds Small Town

Jean Rivard Antoine Gérin-Lajoie [trans. Vida Bruce] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 280 pages This review now app...

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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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