The Dusty Bookcase

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

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19 June 2023

Véhicule Press: Ten for Fifty

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Véhicule Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past weekend. One of eight people invited to speak at the celebration, I kept kept m...
27 January 2023

Television Man is Crazy

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The one hundred and twelfth issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in our rural mailbox yesterday afternoon. A beautiful thing, wrap...
23 December 2021

Just in Time for Christmas!

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The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries  arrives at a busy time of year, which suits me just fine. I usually race through each issue, ...
07 June 2021

Criminal Notes & Queries

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The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...
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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13 July 2020

CNQ: Spring? Spring Ish

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“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” Th...
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29 January 2020

Published in the Age of Unravelling

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Can it be? Not four weeks into the New Year and already a new Canadian Notes & Queries ? A theme issue – "Writing in the Age of...
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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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