The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 October 2013

The Harlequin Horror That Just Won't Die!

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Vengeance of the Black Donnellys Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 Winnipeg: Greywood, 1969 Toronto: Modern Cana...
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30 October 2013

New Brunswick Boy in Number 10

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Here's to Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who took his final breath ninety years ago today. No one was much surpris...
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25 October 2013

P is for Plus ça change...

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National Post  Editor-at-Large Diane Francis has been making the rounds flogging her latest. I've felt some sympathy. Her book,  Me...
21 October 2013

Sugar-Puss Returns!

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Sixty-three years after it disappeared from drugstore spinner racks, Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street is finally making its way to bookst...
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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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