The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Scholastic. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Scholastic. Show all posts

17 October 2023

Adults Without a Clue

The Clue of the Dead Duck Scott Young Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 159 pages Morgan Perdue and Albert "Young Ab" Magee are up to n...

06 May 2019

A Brief Review of a Book Bought in Error

Exit Barney McGee Claire Mackay Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic-TAB, 1979 146 pages We've all been there. It's the dying minu...

20 June 2016

Return to Miss Moneypenny's Fishing Lodge; or, Billy's Bad Trip

Return to Rainbow Country William Davidson Don Mills, ON: PaperJacks, 1975 186 pages This review now appears, revised and re...

13 June 2013

Reverend Kerby Treads Carefully

The Broken Tail George W. Kerby Toronto: Briggs, 1909 189 pages This first part of my review now appears, revised and rewritt...

12 October 2009

Childhood's End

That crummy bookstore I complained about last Thursday wasn't my only source of books. In elementary school then, as now, the Schol...

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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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