The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 April 2025

The Man with the Midas Touch

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Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...
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25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

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The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...
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19 October 2024

Darkness on the Edge of Town

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Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin Marilyn Ross [W.E.D. Ross] New York: Paperback Library, 1970 157 pages The back cover poses a quest...
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16 September 2024

As He Lay Dying

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The Jameson Girls Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1956 240 pages King Jameson is dying and his daughters...
24 June 2024

Fifteen Favourite Quebec Novels pour la Fête

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For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...
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17 June 2024

A Nova Scotian Writes Ontario Gothic

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Morgan's Castle Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard & Schulman, 1964 188 pages An uncredited dust jacket of mysterious ...
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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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