The Dusty Bookcase

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

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02 January 2025

The Nine Best Canadian Novels of the 1920s

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In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...
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17 June 2024

A Nova Scotian Writes Ontario Gothic

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Morgan's Castle Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard & Schulman, 1964 188 pages An uncredited dust jacket of mysterious ...
17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

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More Joy in Heaven Morley Callaghan New York: Random House, 1937 278 page s It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introd...
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11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

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In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...
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17 August 2022

Dope. Danger. One Doll.

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Lost House Frances Shelley Wees Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 192 pages Frances Shelley Wees runs hot and cold with me. I liked The Keys of My P...
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01 October 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: S is for Slater (not Mitchell)

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...
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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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