The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label McClelland and Stewart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McClelland and Stewart. Show all posts
12 May 2026

A Wedding, but No Wedding Night; or, A Sorry, Tragic Tale of Two Solitudes (in two editions)

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Antoinette de Mirecourt    or, Secret Marrying and Secret  Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 200 pages Anto...
27 April 2026

In Canada's Green and Pleasant Land

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As a Watered Garden Marian Keith [Mary Esther Miller MacGregor] Toronto; McClelland & Stewart, 1946 297 pages My Marian Keith collection...
14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

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The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...
20 October 2025

Wild Wild Geese

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Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...
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13 September 2025

Laura Secord at 250: What is Good and Brave

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Laura Secord was born 250 years ago today. She was the very first figure in Canadian history I knew by name, though family lore has it that ...
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05 August 2025

The Urban Leacock

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Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 310 pages On my most recent visit to Montreal I ...
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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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