The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Guides. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Guides. Show all posts

28 September 2013

L is for League of Canadian Poets

The League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets n.p.: The League of Canadian Poets, 1980 My present situation vis-à-vis ...

28 April 2012

The Little People of Expo 67

Expo 67: Album Souvenir/Souvenir Book Montreal: Benjamin News, [1966?] Expo 67 opened forty-five years ago today. The most successf...

30 April 2011

Hey, Fifty Bucks is Fifty Bucks

Easy Income Tax Guide Toronto: Al White Publications, 1946

26 January 2011

AL PALMER PLAGIARISM SCANDAL!

There's no question that Al Palmer's Montreal Confidential (1949) was inspired by New York: Confidential! (1947), but who woul...

05 April 2009

'...a helluva town to come back to'

Montreal Confidential Al Palmer Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 Readying for a trip to my hometown, I reach for this cheap little pa...

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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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