The Dusty Bookcase

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

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12 November 2026

Robert Barr: My Modest Collection

Robert Barr at his desk at The Idler McClure's Magazine, November 1894 If Canadian Grant Allen really was the "busiest man in Engl...

03 November 2026

Of a Petite Prima Donna (and her pretty little feet)

Judith Moore; or, Fashioning a Pipe Joanna E. Wood 101 pages A very slim paperback printed on demand at Amazon's Bolton, Ontario fulfi...

07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...

16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...

01 September 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Peacock Philosopher

The Money Master; Being the Curious History of Jean Jacques Barbille, His Labours, His Loves and His Ladies Gilbert Parker Toronto: Co...

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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. 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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