The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Ross (Sinclair). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ross (Sinclair). Show all posts

15 September 2014

An Invalid Amazon Customer Review (and others)

Three reviews by Amazon customer Lamppu. I have problems with the first, disagree wholeheartedly with the second, and have no opinion...

23 May 2014

Young Mister Richler on the New Canadian Library

Further goodness from the May 1958 issue of The Montrealer with Richler reviewing the New Canadian Library's inaugural offerings. A...

16 January 2012

The Mystery Writer Mystery Unravels

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

07 February 2011

NCL: Devolution, Evolution and Lateral Moves

New Canadian Library series designs as reflected in the work of Sinclair Ross, beginning way back in 1958 with NCL 4. 1970 1985...

18 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (4/6)

As for Me and My House Sinclair Ross Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1994 "This is an edition of 250 signed and numbered copies, of...

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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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