The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Montreal Daily Witness. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Montreal Daily Witness. Show all posts

10 June 2025

Looking Back on Looking Forward

The Daily Witness , 16 May 1913 An addendum to last week's post on Looking Forward by Hugh Pedley . Looking Forward features cub repor...

01 January 2014

Temperance Verse for New Year's Day

The Montreal Witness , 3 January 1894 THE PLEBISCITE VOTE IN ONTARIO, 1894 It was 1894, ere the New Year's Day was o'er, ...

23 March 2011

Poet Names Newspaper Editor as Lucifer's Heir

The New York Times, 28 March 1875 John J. MacDonald's hate for Charles Chiniquy spreads. Here the target is John Dougall, whose paper...

26 April 2010

Drowning by the Dock of the Bay

P oems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) It seems they were forever fishing bodies out of Toronto Bay in the 19th century....

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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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