The Dusty Bookcase

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

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03 February 2014

Still Reading Richard Rohmer. Is Alice Munro?

More than a month into the New Year and I'm still at it . So are my pals Chris Kelly and Stanley Whyte . The books themselves ha...

01 February 2014

Trudeau Redux: Compare and Contrast II

Pierre Trudeau and Joni Mitchell at her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, 5 October 1981. ...

29 January 2014

Remembering John Buell: A Lot to Make Up For

A Lot to Make Up For John Buell Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 1990 John Buell died last month. I know because a friend forwarded th...

27 January 2014

Brian Moore's Forgotten First Feature: Speculation and Scattered Thoughts on a Film I've Never Seen

As with the pseudonymously published novel on which it's based , the great Brian Moore laid no claim to Intent to Kill . His name ...

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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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