The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 April 2011

Hey, Fifty Bucks is Fifty Bucks

Easy Income Tax Guide Toronto: Al White Publications, 1946

25 April 2011

One Long, Tedious Suicide Note

Death Be My Destiny Neil H. Perrin [pseud. Danny Halperin] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 The most interesting thing about D...

23 April 2011

To the Lighthouse!

Anne's House of Dreams L. M. Montgomery New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d.

19 April 2011

Margaret's Marriage in Mass Market

Margaret Trudeau: The Prime Minister's Runaway Wife Felicity Cochrane Scarborough, ON: Signet, 1978 Anyone needing a reminder...

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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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