The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Braithwaite (Max). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Braithwaite (Max). Show all posts

18 December 2017

Yeah, I Know the Muffled Man

The Mystery of the Muffled Man Max Braithwaite Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 160 pages Fifty-five years ago, The Mystery...

19 January 2015

Max Braithwaite's True First

We Live in Ontario Max Braithwaite and R.S. Lambert [Agincourt, ON]: Book Society of Canada, 1957 Yes, we do! In fact, we arrived se...

26 March 2013

Condensed CanLit

Why Shoot the Teacher Max Braithwaite Reader's Digest Condensed Books Montreal: Reader's Digest, 1981 Our local public libr...

02 August 2012

The LSD CanLit

Regrets? I've had a few. Just last week I passed on a fine Macmillan first edition of Bernard Epps' Pilgarlic the Death that ...

07 December 2011

Max Braithwaite's Bawdy Book

Humorist Max Braithwaite was born one hundred years ago today in Nokomis, Saskatchewan. His Why Shoot the Teacher was one of the very...

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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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