The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label New Canadian Library. Show all posts

12 May 2026

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

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

20 October 2025

Wild Wild Geese

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

05 August 2025

The Urban Leacock

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

17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

More Joy in Heaven Morley Callaghan New York: Random House, 1937 278 page s It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introd...

24 July 2023

Average Leacock for the Average Man

Winnowed Wisdom Stephen Leacock New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926 300 pages The author's sixteenth book of humour in as many years, one wonders...

16 January 2023

James De Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James De Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...

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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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