The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Colombo. Show all posts

11 April 2014

The Return of Hugh Garner's Neglected Novel

As promised, after a sixty-three year and nine month absence Hugh Garner's Waste No Tears returned to print last week. The fifth Ve...

14 October 2009

Brian Moore's Pulp Fiction

This blog began ten months ago with a modest piece on Sailor's Leave , the Brian Moore novel first published by Harlequin as Wreath ...

16 August 2009

Gustafson's Good or Bad Novel

Ralph Barker Gustafson 16 August 1909 - 29 May 1995 In recent months, I've come to realize the importance of nineteen-aught-nine to th...

03 August 2009

Gay and Withdrawn

Gay Canadian Rogues: Swindlers, Gold-diggers and Spies Frank Rasky Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958 Bought for a bu...

06 March 2009

The Poet Mayor of Toronto

The Mackenzie Poems William Lyon Mackenzie & John Robert Colombo Toronto: Swan, 1966 A great deal is being made today over T...

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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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