The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Porcupine's Quill. Show all posts
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01 August 2016

Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down...

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Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures. They began tearing down the old school next to our home last w...
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27 May 2013

Selling From a Sea She'll Only Drag You Down

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From a Seaside Town Norman Levine London: Macmillan, 1970 Challenge:  Draw attention to a neglected, critically acclaimed novel by ...
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28 August 2012

Collecting Norman Levine (Arts '48)

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A collector writes today in response to my column in the new Norman Levine issue of Canadian Notes & Queries : "You mentione...
12 May 2012

An Invitation from (and to) Biblioasis

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An invitation to a book launch arrives... and with it comes the realization that publisher Biblioasis has received so little mention o...
16 January 2012

The Mystery Writer Mystery Unravels

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'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry'  pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...
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29 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (6/6)

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General Ludd John Metcalf Downsview, Ontario: ECW, 1980 Bought nearly a quarter century ago, it turns out that this, not No Man's Meat ,...
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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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