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

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04 December 2023

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2023!

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With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...
06 March 2023

The Great Canadian Author Photo and Bio?

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Purchased last week to treat myself. Lord knows I deserve it. Above is the cover of the first and only British edition of Hot Freeze by Mar...
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07 December 2020

Ten Best Book Buys of 2020 (& Three Great Gifts)

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In years to come – presuming they come – I expect I'll look upon this beat-up copy of Arthur Beverley Baxter's  The Blower of Bubble...
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13 September 2017

Ten Dusty Favourites from The Dusty Bookcase

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Brian shares ten noteworthy finds on his bibliophilic journey, including gossip about the Eaton family, radish-heavy dialogue, and ...
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17 October 2016

A List of Montreal's Post-War Pulps: Second Shot

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Late last month, I was interviewed by CULT MTL for their cover story on Montreal pulp and the Ricochet Books series. The issue arrived ...
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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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