The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis: A Plea

Do you know this man? I've been slowly making my way through the complete works of Kenneth Orvis (a/k/a Kenneth Lemieux). Eight bo...

16 November 2016

Betting the House

Hickory House Kenneth Orvis [pseud. Kenneth Lemieux] Toronto: Harlequin, 1956 Bookie Alfredo Rossi can see the writing on the ...

26 December 2015

Ten of the Best: Spanking Good Book Buys of 2015

Early morning on Boxing Day and I'm lying comfortably in bed. My late mother is to thank. She taught that there is something unseeml...

15 July 2014

Richard Rohmer's Retaliation: The Chairmen Rave

Retaliation Richard Rohmer Toronto: PaperJacks, 1983 298 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new bo...

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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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