The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Unpublished works. Show all posts

24 March 2025

Joyce Boyle: Early Research

An addendum to Saturday's post on The Stone Cottage Mystery . Emily Joyce Boyle was born on April 6, 1901, missing that year's cens...

18 March 2024

Quick! To the Customs House!

Montreal Customs House, c. 1916 I've been on something of a Constance Beresford-Howe kick this past week, all to do with her 1947 novel...

23 October 2023

Whither the Canadian American Bestseller?

Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine outsold eve...

02 August 2021

Shorter Moore

Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...

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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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