The Dusty Bookcase

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

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12 May 2026

A Wedding, but No Wedding Night; or, A Sorry, Tragic Tale of Two Solitudes (in two editions)

Antoinette de Mirecourt or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 200 pages Anto...

20 March 2026

Tales of Terror, Torment, and... Charm?

The Torrent [ Le torrent ] Anne Hébert [trans Gwendolyn Moore] Montreal: Harvest House, 1973 141 pages Anne Hébert completed Le torrent i...

04 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 2): Ruf der Wildgänse

The second of three addendums to the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . It's hard to know what to make of ...

20 October 2025

Wild Wild Geese

Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...

07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...

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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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