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

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11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

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In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...
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12 November 2020

What to Do? What to Do?

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The New Front Line Hubert Evans Toronto: Macmillan, 1927 291 pages Hugh Henderson has returned from the Great War, but not to his Ontario ho...
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16 October 2017

A Great War Veteran's Pre-War Thriller

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Black Feather Benge Atlee New York: Scribners, 1939 345 page s The weapons Britain is supplying to its Arab allies are somehow endi...
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27 December 2016

The Ten Best Book Buys of a Very Bad Year

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An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...
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05 December 2014

Done With Buying Books

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For this year, at least. Not only will budget not allow, I'm running out of room. I shouldn't complain. These past eleven ...
20 June 2014

The Great Canadian Great War Novel

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Tomorrow marks the day that Peregrine Acland's All Else is Folly officially returns to print. That more than eight decades have pa...
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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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