The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 December 2025

The Three Best Reads of 2025 (two are in print!)

An annus horribilis , wouldn't you say? Strange, too! Never thought I'd be flying the flag of Greenland from the porch of our Upper ...

07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...

02 January 2024

Acadian Driftwood

The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia Prof. James De Mille Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875 264 pages Like De Mille's A Strange Manusc...

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 ...

16 October 2019

A Dog's Life and Then Some

Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog [New and Revised Edition] Marshall Saunders Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, n.d. 2...

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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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