The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 November 2010

The Canada Doctor: First Visit

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The Canada Doctor Clay Perry and John L.E. Pell Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint/[Toronto]: Thomas Allen, 1933 361 pages ...
26 November 2010

James at 100 (Jasper at 62)

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As a kid, Jasper was everywhere – the daily newspaper, Maclean's , postcards, T-shirts, buttons and ball caps – but now he's seen no...
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22 November 2010

A Neglected Author's Forgotten Novel

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Gambling with Fire David Montrose [pseud., Charles Ross Graham] Don Mills, ON: Longmans Canada, [1969] Until this year, I had n...
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21 November 2010

A.J.M. Smith Memorial Plaque

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It was thirty years ago today that A.J.M. Smith died. This coming Saturday afternoon will see the unveiling of a memorial plaque to the p...
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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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