The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 December 2013

Z is for Zink, Lubor J.

Has there ever been so underappreciated a writer as Lubor J. Zink? Was ever one so misunderstood? Even enthusiastic supporter Peter Wort...

28 December 2013

Y is for Young Cover Cavalcade

Toronto: Salvation Army, 1949 Boston: Little Brown, 1952 Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1956 Toronto: Ryerson, 1965 ...

27 December 2013

Christmas with Neil Young's Dad

Home for Christmas and Other Stories Scott Young Toronto: Macmillan, 1989 Seventeen stories by sportswriter and sometime hired pen S...

25 December 2013

Christmas Greetings from Gay Page!

from The Workshops and Other Poems Gay Page (pseud. Florence N. Horner Sherk) Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919 Verse of ...

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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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