The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Cookbooks. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Cookbooks. Show all posts

14 September 2015

Margaret Laurence's Cauliflower Soup

"I'm going out for more milk." "You're kidding." "It takes an awful lot." "We have crea...

22 December 2014

Comfort in Cans

Vancouver Aquarium Seafood Recipes Ainley Jackson Vancouver: Gordon Soules, 1977 No living creature from the aquarium was killed in...

22 March 2013

Dining with Mister Dressup

Air Fare: The Entertainers Entertain Allan Gould Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1984 Okay, so I never dined with Mr Dressup, but I did on...

16 December 2011

Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry

The Watching Cat Pamela Fry London: Davies, 1960 Who was Pamela Fry? None of my Montreal friends, bookish types all, have been ab...

13 May 2010

Serving Up Louis Riel

A few final words on Swan Publishing. The company put out only four books by Canadian authors, but this wasn't one of them. A shame ...

26 February 2010

Mrs. J. Hoodless, Domestic Scientist

J.W.L. Forster . Adelaide Hoodless ( c. 1897) One hundred years ago today, Adelaide Hoodless collapsed and died while delivering a speech 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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