The Dusty Bookcase

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

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14 November 2016

Arnold Viersen Has a Rhyme for Manure

Your lights are on, but you're not home. Your mind is not your own. The week Arnold Vier...

25 March 2015

Pornography Dressed Up as a Cautionary Tale

Death by Deficit: A 2001 Novel Richard Rohmer Toronto: Stoddart, 1995 There are plenty of villains in this novel – Quebecers, bank...

04 September 2013

Harper Hockey Book Watch: Year Ten, Day 77

Oh, we of little faith! Just as belief had begun to wain, joyous news comes from the East that the prime minister's hockey book ...

26 January 2013

Harper Hockey Book Watch: Year Nine, Day 222

A big tip of the hat and nod of respect this fine weekend to journalist Stephen Maher for doggedly pursuing a story which so many o...

31 December 2010

In Search of George Pepki, Poet

Yesterday's Globe and Mail featured a short work of fiction by Preston Manning . Titled "2018: The new health care", it...

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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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