The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 December 2011

Just Say the Invitation Never Arrived

The Globe and Mail , 30 December 1936

27 December 2011

A Quiet Revolution and Still Cowards Complain

The Squeaking Wheel John Mercer [pseud. Eric Cecil Morris] n.p.: Rubicon, 1966 103 pages This review now appears, rev...

25 December 2011

A Merry Christmas to All

A few favourite images from the 1961 Eaton's Santa Claus Parade Colouring Book . The entire thing – 32-pages, plus "COLOUR GUIDE IN...

23 December 2011

Pulp Noir à Montréal

The new edition of Canadian Notes & Queries lands, and with it comes another Dusty Bookcase sur papier . This time the spotlight pla...

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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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