The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Government publications. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Government publications. Show all posts

05 July 2024

My Fourth and Fifth Canadian Book of Lists Lists: It's a Man's World... an English Man's World

Being the fifth post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists . Susanna Moodie surrounded by men seems an appro...

16 January 2018

Resuming Richard Rohmer: A Plea for Help

Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...

02 July 2012

When Poets Ruled; Or, Never Mind the Novelists

For my poet friends, these observations from Canada 1962 : A striking feature of Canadian letters in recent years has been the consis...

01 July 2012

The Greater Canada of 1962

Canada 1962: The Official Handbook of Present Conditions and Recent Progress Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962 I missed the bet...

30 June 2012

The True North...

From Canada 1962 , a proud publication of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics' Information Services Division, further evidence that we...

16 November 2009

A Tory Bodice-ripper?

Strange days, indeed. This past Wednesday, Remembrance Day, Linden MacIntyre received a well-deserved Giller Prize for The Bishop's ...

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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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