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
Showing posts with label New Canadian Library. Show all posts
17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

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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...
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24 July 2023

Average Leacock for the Average Man

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Winnowed Wisdom Stephen Leacock New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926 300 pages The author's sixteenth book of humour in as many years, one wonders...
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16 January 2023

James De Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

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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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02 December 2022

Best Books of 1922: Amidst a Flood of Mediocrity

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Published one hundred years ago today, the 1922 Globe round-up of the year's noteworthy books doesn't display much by way of enthus...
11 July 2022

Gothique Canadien

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Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D.      Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...
02 March 2022

Lunar Attractions; or, The Leacock I Like

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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock Toronto: Gundy, 1915 282 pages My introduction to Stephen Leacock came through a copy of  L...
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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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