The Dusty Bookcase

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

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19 December 2022

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2022 (plus gifts!)

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This year will be forever remembered as the one in which Sexpo '69  was added to my collection. An elusive book, published in 1969 by Br...
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17 August 2022

Dope. Danger. One Doll.

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Lost House Frances Shelley Wees Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 192 pages Frances Shelley Wees runs hot and cold with me. I liked The Keys of My P...
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14 August 2022

Considering Frances Shelley Wees's Lost House

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A photo taken on the sly by my wife. Review to come. Related posts: A Rival for Margaret Millar? The Return of Frances Shelley Wees Domestic...
26 December 2020

The Very Best Reads of a Plague Year

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Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...
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13 October 2020

M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty: Title, Cover, Confession

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The new Ricochet edition of Frances Shelley Wees's I Am Not Guilty arrived in my rural mailbox last week, meaning that it is well on it...
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08 March 2020

10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day

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One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...
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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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