The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Carroll (Jock). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carroll (Jock). Show all posts
27 March 2020

Reluctantly Revisiting Canada's Great Virus Novel

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Nobody told me there'd be days like these. The Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs are the least of my worries. I've ...
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29 May 2017

The Dusty Bookcase at 1000

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Last Tuesday's post marked the one thousandth since this blog began. I saw it coming, took my eye off the ball, and didn't notic...
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06 July 2011

Bottoms Up, Shy Photographer

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Reading The Queers of New York a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about Jock Carroll, under whose editorial direction the book was p...
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18 February 2010

Carroll's Canadian Originals

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Those adverts at the back of The Last Canadian have had me scouring local thrift shops for Leo Orenstein's The Queers of New York ...
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28 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part IV)

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Bottoms Up Jock Carroll Covina, CA: Collectors Publications, 1967 Strange to think that this novel, which receives no mention in...
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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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