The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 February 2010

A Final Warning for Olympic Visitors

26 February 2010

Mrs. J. Hoodless, Domestic Scientist

J.W.L. Forster . Adelaide Hoodless ( c. 1897) One hundred years ago today, Adelaide Hoodless collapsed and died while delivering a speech t...

25 February 2010

A Prudish Policewoman's Porn

The Globe and Mail , 31 December 1964 Oh, Policewoman Davies, you tried your best, but you were no match for Mistress Hill and Lady Chatterl...

22 February 2010

Freedom for Fanny

Yesterday marked the beginning of Freedom to Read Week; I spent much of it stripping wallpaper. Truth be told, I don't much feel lik...

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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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