The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Seton. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Seton. Show all posts

10 June 2013

The Year L.M. Montgomery Became Lucy Maud

The Canadian Bookman , January 1909 I have Erica Brown of the wonderful Reading 1900-1950 to blame for time wasted this past weekend. ...

20 August 2010

The Final Indignity

Further to yesterday's post : Monarch was captured and brought to San Francisco in 1889 as part of a publicity stunt for William Randolp...

19 August 2010

Six More Cinders in the Eye

It wasn't until reading up on Bannertail that I learned of Japan's attraction to things Seton. This pales beside the idolization of...

14 August 2010

Magic Mushrooms and Bad, Bad Boys

Bannertail: The Story of a Graysquirrel Ernest Thompson Seton London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922 230 pages This re...

09 June 2009

Queen Remembers Forgotten Book

Much ado this morning over Suzanna, a yellow Labrador retriever the Queen has given the RCMP. According to t he Globe and Mail , Elizabet...

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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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