The Dusty Bookcase

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

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06 August 2009

Pay No Need

Canadian Bookman , March 1922

03 August 2009

Gay and Withdrawn

Gay Canadian Rogues: Swindlers, Gold-diggers and Spies Frank Rasky Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958 Bought for a bu...

28 July 2009

Late of the Bowery

Much ado in our national press leading to today, the hundredth anniversary of Malcolm Lowry 's birth. All this attention by the very sam...

26 July 2009

Ignoble Pornographie - Translated!

Bitter Bread [ L a Scouine] Albert Laberge [Conrad Dion, trans.] [Montreal]: Harvest House, 1977 A portrait of the artist as a glu...

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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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