The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 June 2009

Galt's Damaged Pastor Novelist

92 Glenmorris Street, Cambridge, Ontario, home of Robert E. Knowles I spent much of this past Father's Day in Cambridge, that awkward, f...

24 June 2009

A Song for la Fête de la St-Jean

A translation of 'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!' , composed by the great George-Étienne Cartier , ninth president of the Société S...

23 June 2009

(Probably Not) The David Lewis Centenary

Youngsters David Lewis and A. M. Klein Recognition today of David Lewis , né Losz, born sometime around one hundred years ago in Svisloch,...

18 June 2009

Maria Monk's Immortal Book

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk; or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life Exposed! Manchester: Milner & Co., n.d. 192 p...

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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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