The Dusty Bookcase

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

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03 March 2014

Recycling Richard Rohmer

Separation Two Richard Rohmer Markham, ON: PaperJacks, 1981 March has come in like a lion, but those of us committed to reading R...

01 March 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Selected Salacious Filth Found in a Toronto Controller's Dresser Drawer

David A. Balfour 1889 - 1956 RIP The joke that is Rob Ford isn't funny anymore, right? We all know where he's heading, the ...

28 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Condemned by Coren

How Do You Spell Abducted? Cherylyn Stacey Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1996 Newspaper columnists don't always write th...

27 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Ben Hecht on Front Page …of The Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen , 31 October 1947

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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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