The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label MacKinnon. Show all posts

Showing posts with label MacKinnon. Show all posts

01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the Globe's annual list of best books, begins ...

10 September 2012

Lilian Vaux MacKinnon and Her Critics

A fleeting follow-up to the previous post : Lilian Vaux MacKinnon earned a English B.A. (Honours) at Queen's, though I don't s...

06 September 2012

Back to School with Miriam of Queen's

Miriam of Queen's Lilian Vaux MacKinnon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921 Imagine, a Canadian college novel publishe...

17 January 2011

A Termination that Dare Not Speak Its Name

The Letter of the Contract Basil King New York: Harper and Brothers, 1914 The contract in question concerns the marriage of Edith and Chipma...

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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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