The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Toronto Telegram. Show all posts
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28 November 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Z is for Zink (Again)

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Uprooted Lubor Zink Toronto: Longmans Ca...
15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

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Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...
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01 October 2019

A Russian is Coming! A Russian is Coming!

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Russian Roulette [ Kosygin is Coming ] Tom Ardies Toronto: PaperJacks, 1975 207 pages Tom Ardies' thrillers fall into two nea...
10 December 2018

This Necessary Read

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This Necessary Murder Frances Shelley Wees London: Jenkins, 1957 191 pages When buying this book I chose to ignore several signific...
29 October 2012

True Crime Stories from David Cronenberg's Dad

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There's much to admire in Milton Cronenberg, a man who worked very hard to put food on his family's table. A writer and e...
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01 July 2012

The Greater Canada of 1962

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Canada 1962: The Official Handbook of Present Conditions    and Recent Progress Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962 I missed the bet...
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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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