The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 March 2009

Alec Falcon, c'est moi

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All Else is Folly Peregrine Acland Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1929 Peregrine Acland is not the sort of name one forgets. I...
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23 March 2009

Gabrielle Roy at 100 (and One Day)

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The Globe & Mail , 26 April 1947 Referencing the above yesterday , I thought it best to hunt the thing down - if only to make c...
22 March 2009

Gabrielle Roy at 100

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The great Gabrielle Roy was born one hundred years ago today. Recognition is, I suppose, not in keeping with the stated theme of this...
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20 March 2009

Stephen Harper's Forgotten Speech

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In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don...
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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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