The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label University of Toronto Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Toronto Press. Show all posts
16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

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The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...
29 October 2021

The Scotts of Quebec City

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Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...
27 December 2018

Best Book Buys of 2018 (four of which were gifts)

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Twenty-eighteen was a year of great change. In April, we sold our home of ten years and started packing up our belongings. We moved in...
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17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

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For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...
20 October 2015

Trudeaumania II

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One prime minister weeps over the coffin of another. I doubt anyone at McClelland & Stewart was thinking this back in 2000 when...
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06 February 2010

Ex Libris: Hugo McPherson

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Nothing at all remarkable about the inscription here to critic Hugo McPherson, interest is to be found in the book itself. Nearly half a c...
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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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