The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 July 2013

D is for Doppelgänger

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There was a Brian Busby who lived two blocks from the house in which I grew up. Our paths never crossed – he was eight years older – but...
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24 July 2013

C is for Canada Monthly

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The October 1912 issue of Canada Monthly , purchased late last year for the humour – black humour – of its cover: Agnes Deans Cameron...
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22 July 2013

The Heart Accepts It All in the Rural Mail

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Copies of The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco , edited and annotated by yours truly, arrived at our home  on Frid...
18 July 2013

B is for the Bombardier Guide to Canadian Authors

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My introduction to Canadian literature came in the pages of National Lampoon . No joke. Canada's writers weren't taught in the...
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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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