The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 March 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Norman Levine Accuses Canadian Booksellers of Censorship

The Globe & Mail , 30 May 1959 A baffled reviewer: Jean Swanson in The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , 20 December 1958

28 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Irving Layton's Defence of Dog Show Girl and Deviate is Not Taken Seriously

The Globe & Mail , 17 April 1973 I began by attacking the puritanism and the anti-sexuality that was in this country then, ...

27 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Embracing Elinor Glyn

Philip Alexius de Laszlo. Elinor Glyn (1912) Would you like to sin ...

26 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: The Police Raid Britnell's

Or maybe not: The Globe & Mail , 10 April 1910 I was familiar with Three Weeks – it was, after all, penned by scandalous semi-...

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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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