The Dusty Bookcase

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

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03 June 2014

Milton Douglas, Canadian Author?

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Sin for Your Supper Milton Douglas Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 Milton Douglas was a friend of John Glassco. If one is to belie...
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29 May 2014

RMS Empress of Ireland: 100 Years

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For the day, glimpses of  A Package of Postcards and a "Wireless" , published in 1907 by Canadian Pacific Railway as a means o...
27 May 2014

Die Deutsch Brian Moore; or, Ginger Coffey in NYC

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At once one of the funniest and most depressing novels ever set in my beloved Montreal, The Luck of Ginger Coffey is a favourite. I exp...
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23 May 2014

Young Mister Richler on the New Canadian Library

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Further goodness from the May 1958 issue of The Montrealer with Richler reviewing the New Canadian Library's inaugural offerings. A...
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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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