The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Macdonald (Ross). Show all posts
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01 February 2026

A Ross Macdonald Sunday Matinee Mystery – With Guest Appearence by Catherine O'Hara

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It's been a remarkably cold winter, made more so by news Friday that Catherine O'Hara had died. Apparently, she was seventy-one. Who...
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21 June 2025

Dusty CanLit Spring Reviews

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Here comes summer. School is out. Oh, happy day. So, here we are with the spring blog reviews of old CanLit. As expected, most came from Can...
20 March 2025

Dusty CanLit Winter Reviews

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Blogs.  They were done in by social media, right? In my own small way I helped hasten the decline. Back in 2011, after years of reluctance, ...
04 February 2019

Margaret Millar Simplified and Spoiled

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The Listening Walls Margaret Millar [abridged by George McMillin] New York: Falcon, 1975 The Listening Walls Collected Millar: T...
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30 January 2018

Margaret Millar Makes Something of Herself

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The Invisible Worm Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 We had a very Canadian eagernes...
15 February 2017

A Small Town's Biggest Novelist

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The newest issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived last week, containing all sorts of goodness wrapped in a cover by Seth. My c...
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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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