The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 October 2023

Whither the Canadian American Bestseller?

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Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine  outsold eve...
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26 August 2019

Domestic Suspense in Small Town Ontario

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M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty Frances Shelley Wees New York: Doubleday, 1954 222 pages M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty  begins after a mo...
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09 April 2018

Who Is Canada's Outstanding Novelist? (1945)

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Critic William Arthur Deacon isn't much discussed these days – or even much recognized – but for a good part of the last century he ...
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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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