The Dusty Bookcase

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

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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...

10 July 2016

If the rain comes...

In a long, hot summer of precious little precious rain, Seth's cover for the new Canadian Notes & Queries reminds booklovers ...

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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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