The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 May 2010

The Messy World of Ronald J. Cooke

The House on Craig Street Ronald J. Cooke Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 158 pages This review, revisited and revise...

24 May 2010

Victoria Day Poetry Disaster

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Returning to James McIntyre – for the final time, I think – this poem...

22 May 2010

A Dutch Treat

De Venusberg [ Under the Hill ] Aubrey Beardsley and John Glassco [Werner Cranshoff, trans.] Amsterdam: Uitgeversij de Arbeiderspers, 1971. ...

17 May 2010

From the Public Library to Mine

There will be some unpleasantness. This past week I spent a few hours volunteering at the semiannual St Marys Public Library boo...

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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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