The Dusty Bookcase

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

▼

Showing posts with label Brierley. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Brierley. Show all posts

12 November 2024

Last Words of a Raconteur

Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence [ Divers ] Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé [trans Jane Brierley] Montreal: V é hicule, ...

19 June 2023

Véhicule Press: Ten for Fifty

Véhicule Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past weekend. One of eight people invited to speak at the celebration, I kept kept m...

11 July 2022

Gothique Canadien

Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D. Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...

24 September 2009

Old Folks

Jean-Louis Lessard has just completed a very fine series on early Canadian writer Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, the seigneur best-know...

View web version

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.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.