The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Novellas. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Novellas. Show all posts

16 December 2025

Exhuming McCarthy

The Investigator: A Narrative in Dialogue Reuben Ship London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956 119 pages Joseph McCarthy was not long for this w...

30 September 2025

Ted Mann's Pulp Fiction

Crimes; or: I'm Sorry Sir, But We Do Not Sell Handguns to Junkies Vicar Vicars [Ted Mann] Vancouver: Pulp, 1973 62 pages Ted Mann die...

25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages Note: The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...

14 March 2023

James Moffatt Wins the Race

The Marathon Murder James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1972 124 pages On January 12, 1972, Canadian writer James Moffatt appeared on...

23 August 2021

Double Fantasy

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame Robert Barr New York: Stokes, 1896 219 pages Novellas both, "One Day's Courtship...

26 February 2020

Reading Gérard Bessette on His Hundredth

Not for Every Eye [ Le libraire ] Gérard Bessette [trans. Glen Shortliffe] Toronto: Macmillan, 1962 98 pages Yesterday marked the...

13 May 2019

Grant Allen's Breezy Read

An Army Doctor's Romance Grant Allen London: Raphall Tuck & Sons, [1893] 113 pages The publisher lowers expectations with ...

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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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