The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published 'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...

16 September 2018

The Reverend Cody Cover Cavalcade

On this sunny Sunday, the third post concerning Reverend H.A. Cody this month, all part of an effort to atone for ignoring the man these...

12 September 2018

'Strangely Entangled in the Threads of Love'

The Girl at Bullet Lake H.A. Cody Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1933 304 pages Nine years ago, I suggested that Isabel Ecc...

01 September 2018

Words on Writing for a Labour Day Weekend

Bookseller & Stationer , February 1910 A brief passage from H.A. Cody's 1933 novel The Girl at Bullet Lake . Here Augustus Rock...

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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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