The Dusty Bookcase

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

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08 October 2009

Usually Modest, Often Attractive

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The used bookstore closest to my childhood home was very much a soulless place. In weekly visits – spanning elementary school, high school a...
05 October 2009

Pictures of Harriet

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Google Harriet Marwood, the heroine of John Glassco's The English Governess and Harriet Marwood, Governess , and you'll find ...
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03 October 2009

Harlequin's Change of Heart

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I've taken more than a few shots – here and elsewhere – at that great Canadian success story known as Harlequin Enterprises and its r...
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01 October 2009

That's Entertainment, Part III

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A bit of a change of pace this month as I work toward a deadline. Expect fewer words and more pictures – a bit like the revamped Maclean...
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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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