The Dusty Bookcase

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

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17 October 2016

A List of Montreal's Post-War Pulps: Second Shot

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Late last month, I was interviewed by CULT MTL for their cover story on Montreal pulp and the Ricochet Books series. The issue arrived ...
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09 December 2015

The Year's Best Books in Review — A.D. 2015; Featuring Three Books Deserving Resurrection

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Yes, the year's best books in review… the best reviewed here, anyway. These past twelve months haven't been the most active at t...
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28 September 2015

Ricochet! Ricochet!

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Arriving in bookstores as I write, books seven and eight in Véhicule's Ricochet Books series. Following visits to Niagara Falls (Jam...
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28 November 2014

Judging Covers

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Any magazine that looks like that has got to be great. The new Canadian Notes & Queries – number 91 – is just that. Between Seth...
25 April 2014

Too Many Writers

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Too Many Women Gerry Martin Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 Maurice Bendrix, the main character in  The End of the Affair , is a n...
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28 March 2014

The Bullet Trains of the Montreal Metro

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Just got into Montreal  thanks to my friends at The Word bookstore who kindly offered a ride from my door to theirs. A distance of 694 ...
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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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