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

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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...
25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

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The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages   Note:  The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...
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26 December 2019

The Very Best Reads of a Very Strange Year

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It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...
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12 June 2019

The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry

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The Black Donnellys Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 158 pages Oh you who hail from Ontario Know the tale of the Donnellys...
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09 October 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: K is for Kelley

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...
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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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