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

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30 November 2023

Celebrating John Metcalf at 85

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This past Saturday, I joined a pubfull of people – yes, a pubfull – in downtown Ottawa to celebrate John Metcalf's 85th birthday. It wa...
04 July 2023

The CNQ Dusty Bookcase (2010 - 2023)

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The most recent issue of Canadian Notes & Queries  landed late last week. Since then, Canadians have been sending notes and queries rega...
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30 January 2021

Erring on The Terror of the Tar Sands

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A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...
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30 October 2017

CNQ at 100

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It doesn't seem right to describe the new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries as special – every issue is special – but this on...
21 August 2017

The Dusty Bookcase — The Book!

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The Dusty Bookcase arrived at our home this past Friday, meaning copies are now making their way to bookstores across the country. I...
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22 January 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in August

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Today marks the ninth anniversary of The Dusty Bookcase, a good day to recognize what the sharp-eyed have already spotted. This coming A...
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04 April 2016

Passing Go with Canadian Notes & Queries

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Ce soir à Windsor , the launch of Canadian Notes & Queries #95. "The Games Issue", it features contributions by Tobias Ca...
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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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