The Dusty Bookcase

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

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07 December 2013

V is for Vulture: The Bad Luck of Ginger Coffey

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Longtime readers will recognize Slovakia's Spiš Castle, oft-used in covers spewed forth by Nabu Press. The disreputable print on dem...
02 December 2013

A Martin Brett Mystery

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Exit in Green Martin Brett [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953 Douglas Sanderson once said that he turned to myst...
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29 November 2013

U is for Unproduced

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Canadian artistic directors! A half-century ago, your predecessors received the above. I've taken the liberty of transcribing...
25 November 2013

Critic Spoils Christmas (but not Christmas sales)

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Snow arrived this past weekend, bringing visions of sugar plums and reminding me of a stern, schoolmarmish rebuke uncovered in researchi...
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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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