The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Gibbon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gibbon. Show all posts
17 April 2025

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

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Eyes of a Gypsy John Murray Gibbon Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1926 255 pages This past Saturday marked the sesquicentennial of John Murra...
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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09 December 2024

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2024... and many gifts!

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What a year! On day two, while returning from a grocery run in nearby Brockville, I stopped at a thrift store and found first editions of Gi...
26 December 2023

The Best Reads of 2023: Publishers Take Note

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The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...
04 December 2023

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2023!

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With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...
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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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