The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 October 2017

CNQ at 100

It doesn't seem right to describe the new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries as special – every issue is special – but this on...

01 August 2016

Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down...

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures. They began tearing down the old school next to our home last w...

22 December 2014

Comfort in Cans

Vancouver Aquarium Seafood Recipes Ainley Jackson Vancouver: Gordon Soules, 1977 No living creature from the aquarium was killed in...

27 August 2012

Advertising Norman Levine

Jack McClelland never tried to hide his dislike for Norman Levine's Canada Made Me ; that his house acted as Canadian distributor wa...

10 January 2012

The Canadian Publishers

McClelland & Stewart swallowed up by Random House Canada McClelland and Stewart "The Canadian Publishers" 1906 ...

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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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