The Dusty Bookcase

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

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06 March 2023

The Great Canadian Author Photo and Bio?

Purchased last week to treat myself. Lord knows I deserve it. Above is the cover of the first and only British edition of Hot Freeze by Mar...

15 May 2014

Coke Adds Death (where there isn't any)

Pure Sweet Hell Malcolm Douglas [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal, 1957 After two chapters I picked up pen and pa...

16 May 2013

One Last Time in Montreal

A Dum-Dum for the President Martin Brett [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] London: Hammond, 1961 Depending on how you want to look at it, ...

30 September 2012

A Second Body on Mount Royal

Snapped yesterday at the offices of Véhicule Press, the new edition of David Montrose's The Body on Mount Royal . How new? So new ...

11 August 2012

Drunken Writer Exposes Hollywood Hush-Up

Catch a Fallen Starlet Douglas Sanderson New York: Avon, 1960 How's this for a set-up? Three or so years ago, screenwriter A...

29 March 2012

A Dick's Deadly Dames

The Deadly Dames Malcolm Douglas [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal, 1956 Douglas Sanderson's fifth nov...

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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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