The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 May 2011

Six Pyxides for Sunday

Six editions of The Pyx , beginning with the very first paperback edition from Fawcett's Crest Books imprint. Published in 1960, its c...

26 May 2011

A Penthouse Killing in Montreal

The Pyx John Buell New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959 174 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritt...

23 May 2011

Verse for Victoria Day by the Master of All Poets

Queen's Park, Toronto, 1910 James Gay (1810-1891) was a gunsmith, a locksmith, a carpenter and an innkeeper; but more than all th...

21 May 2011

Horace Brown: Saturday Matinee

The first book to appear under his own name, Horace Brown's Whispering City is the rarest of things: a novelization of a Canadian fea...

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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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