The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Dedications. Show all posts

25 May 2026

Of Problem Children and Adolescent Angst

Sunburst Phyllis Gotlieb New York: Fawcett, 1964 160 pages Sorrel Park is no place to live, but this wasn't always so. A smallish city n...

17 April 2025

A Gypsy in the Jazz Age; Or, Reader Meet Author

Eyes of a Gypsy John Murray Gibbon Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1926 255 pages This past Saturday marked the sesquicentennial of John Murra...

04 March 2024

Too Soon?

Son of a Meech: The Best Brian Mulroney Jokes Mark Breslin, ed. Toronto: Ballantine, 1991 113 pages News of Brian Mulroney's death last ...

06 February 2023

A Woman Cheated

The Cannibal Heart Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 In Margaret Millar's bibliograp...

12 October 2022

Quebec City Noir

Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...

27 June 2022

E.T. Cash In

P.E.T: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his unearthly adventures Jude Waples New York: Avon, 1983 93 pages E.T. was the summer blockbuster of 198...

24 June 2022

'La Fête nationale' par Léon Lorrain

Léon Lorrain 1855 - 1892 RIP Verse for the day from Léon Lorrain's Les Fleurs poétiques, simples bluettes (Montreal: Beauchemin, 1890)....

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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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