The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Young (Kendal). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Young (Kendal). Show all posts

06 September 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Y is for Young

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Psyche Phyllis Brett Young Toronto: Longmans...

26 December 2020

The Very Best Reads of a Plague Year

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 ...

20 May 2020

Phyllis Brett Young's Ricochet

Copies of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine , the latest Ricochet Book, were delivered yesterday. I see their arrival as anothe...

19 March 2019

Nature as the Devil's Playground

The Ravine Kendal Young [pseud Phyllis Brett Young] London: W.H. Allen, 1962 208 pages Young Barbara Grey "saved for simply ag...

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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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