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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06 September 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Y is for Young

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Psyche Phyllis Brett Young Toronto: Longmans...
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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...
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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07 December 2020

Ten Best Book Buys of 2020 (& Three Great Gifts)

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In years to come – presuming they come – I expect I'll look upon this beat-up copy of Arthur Beverley Baxter's  The Blower of Bubble...
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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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