The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Signet. Show all posts

05 July 2024

My Fourth and Fifth Canadian Book of Lists Lists: It's a Man's World... an English Man's World

Being the fifth post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists . Susanna Moodie surrounded by men seems an appro...

03 July 2024

My Second Canadian Book of Lists List: The 10 Most Egregious Errors (with Timothy Findley!)

Being the third post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists . THE 10 MOST EGREGIOUS ERRORS 1. THE 10 MOST ENJ...

01 July 2024

My Canadian Book of Lists Lists: An Introduction

The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists Jeremy Brown and David Ondaatje Scarborough: Signet, 1979 391 pages The ...

07 September 2011

A Son's Lies My Father Told Me

Lies My Father Told Me Norman Allan Toronto: Signet, 1975 Back in May , I described novelizations of Canadian films as the rarest of things;...

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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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