The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Show all posts

03 November 2026

Of a Petite Prima Donna (and her pretty little feet)

Judith Moore; or, Fashioning a Pipe Joanna E. Wood 101 pages A very slim paperback printed on demand at Amazon's Bolton, Ontario fulfi...

23 September 2024

Of Poets, Poetry, Politicians, and Parliament Hill

Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...

11 November 2023

Remembrance Day

Daniel Issac Vernon Eaton was the father of novelist Evelyn Eaton, whose 1940 international bestseller Quietly My Captain Waits was review...

14 April 2023

A Very Acadian Scandal

Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...

15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but Quebec in Revolt is in fact...

01 August 2019

Margaret Murray Robertson Matrimonial Mystery (& Canadian literature's most tear-stained novel)

Summertime, and the livin' is busy. Many irons in the fire add to the heat, the pressure is on, and I'm enjoying each and every ...

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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. 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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