The Dusty Bookcase

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

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02 January 2013

Mr. Child's Simple Story of Dramatic Suspense

Mr. Ames Against Time Philip Child Toronto: Ryerson, 1949 244 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new ...

01 January 2013

An Old Poem for the New Year by Arthur Stringer

from Open Water (New York: John Lane, 1914) Related posts: A New Year Immature Verse for the New Year Temperance Vers...

28 December 2012

Mistake at Beechwood Cemetery?

As 2012 draws to a close, I find myself wondering whether this was the year in which we should have been celebrating the sesquicentennia...

25 December 2012

Christmas Verse by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

from Fires of Driftwood (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922) A Merry Christmas to all! Related posts: Christmas Verse fr...

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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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