The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Toronto Sun. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Toronto Sun. Show all posts

28 November 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Z is for Zink (Again)

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Uprooted Lubor Zink Toronto: Longmans Ca...

07 May 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: A is for Adams

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

15 June 2014

On Pearson's Pennant and Ezra Levant's Fiction

"…a distinctive flag which will say to the future: I Stand for Canada!" L.B. Pearson Ottawa: Liberal Federation of Can...

30 December 2013

Z is for Zink, Lubor J.

Has there ever been so underappreciated a writer as Lubor J. Zink? Was ever one so misunderstood? Even enthusiastic supporter Peter Wort...

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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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