The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 June 2014

Immoral Music for a Monday Morning

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Pure filth condemned by John Wesley's White in  Re-entry   (1970), his forty-four-year-old book on Christ's imminent return. Wri...
28 June 2014

Mackenzie King Attends the Funeral of Peregine Acland's Mother & Visits Wilfred Campbell's Grave

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I had a half hour's rest after luncheon before going into the city to attend Mrs. Acland's funeral. Went in with Hendy by statio...
26 June 2014

The Oxford PhD Rambles On

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Re-entry John Wesley White Minneapolis: Word Wide Publications, [1971?] Just how easy is it to obtain a PhD from Oxford? The questio...
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24 June 2014

Canadian Womanhood on Parade!

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For the day, a few photographs of Montreal's 1931 St-Jean Baptiste parade. Running along Sherbrooke, from Lafontaine Park to Atwat...
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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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