The Dusty Bookcase

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

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16 October 2010

The Talented Mr. Orenstein

Something for Saturday. Over at Fly-by-night , dedicated researcher Bowdler uncovers two illustrations by the late director Leo Orenstein , ...

14 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (3/6)

Venus in Furs [ Venus im Pelz ] Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [John Glassco, trans.] Burnaby, BC: Blackfish, 1977 "This book was printed in...

12 October 2010

School's Out, Forever

True story: Three years ago, during our last months in Vancouver, I was working on an anthology of historic Canadian speeches. Among the thi...

11 October 2010

Thanksgiving Day Advice

from Good Reading, Second Reader (Toronto: Educational Book Co., 1931) "Prescribed for supplementary reading in British Columbia"

07 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (2/6)

No Man's Meat Morley Callaghan Paris: Edward W. Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930 "I have had printed of this edition fi...

04 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (1/6)

Hetty Dorval Ethel Wilson Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1967 Typographer: Charles Morris/ Illustrator: Gus Rueter "Thi...

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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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