The Dusty Bookcase

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

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19 June 2023

Véhicule Press: Ten for Fifty

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Véhicule Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past weekend. One of eight people invited to speak at the celebration, I kept kept m...
04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...
10 April 2021

Remembering Fraser Sutherland

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I'm honoured to have been asked by the  Globe & Mail  to write an obituary of poet, critic, journalist, biographer, and lexicographe...
23 June 2014

St. Cuthbert's and the Rest

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The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived Friday, just in time for the first day of summer, bringing another Dusty Bookc...
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22 July 2013

The Heart Accepts It All in the Rural Mail

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Copies of The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco , edited and annotated by yours truly, arrived at our home  on Frid...
13 May 2012

Images of the John Glassco Soirée

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A few photographs of the John Glassco Soirée, held late last month at the Writers' Chapel of Montreal's St James the Apostle A...
16 April 2012

A John Glassco Soirée

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Later this month I'll be joining Carmine Starnino, editor of the recent  John Glassco and the Other Montreal , in a discussion of ...
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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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