The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Social History of Canada. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Social History of Canada. Show all posts

14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...

17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...

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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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