The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Clarke Irwin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Clarke Irwin. Show all posts

26 November 2018

A Man Forgets His Identity (but not his manners)

The Thread of Flame Basil King New York: Harper, 1920 351 pages I raced through this novel, caught up in its plot and hungry fo...

25 June 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: E is for Eaton

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

10 June 2010

Donald Jack Tackles Timothy Findley

The Wars shines brightly, even as Timothy Findley's star falls. A Penguin Modern Classic, it's assigned to reluctant high school and...

28 October 2009

Politician Picks Playwright!

The Greatest Englishman of History Arthur Meighen Toronto: S.B. Gundy/Oxford University Press, 1936 It's been eightee...

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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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