The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 March 2013

'Communion Pascale' de Émile Nelligan

From Franges d'Autel (Montreal: n.p., 1900) Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Stanley Weir Uncollec...

26 March 2013

Condensed CanLit

Why Shoot the Teacher Max Braithwaite Reader's Digest Condensed Books Montreal: Reader's Digest, 1981 Our local public libr...

22 March 2013

Dining with Mister Dressup

Air Fare: The Entertainers Entertain Allan Gould Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1984 Okay, so I never dined with Mr Dressup, but I did on...

20 March 2013

Guelph: City of Galt, Gay, Glyn, Graves and Girdles

March Break. Others head south and we go to Guelph. I've never been much taken with March Break; spring seems so fleeting and I d...

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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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