The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 July 2014

The Great War: The Reveille of Romance

Peregrine Acland, 1914 THE REVEILLE OF ROMANCE (Written in early October, 1914, in mid-ocean, on board H.M. Troopship “Megantic,”...

25 July 2014

Leonard Cohen Erotica… and John Glassco Porn

Five glimpses of Leonard Cohen's short story "Barbers and Lovers", from the Spring 1971 issue of Ingluvin . ...

21 July 2014

Quebec Gothic

The Temple on the River [Les Écœurants] Jacques Hébert [trans. Gerald Taaffe] Montreal: Harvest House, 1967 More novella than novel...

15 July 2014

Richard Rohmer's Retaliation: The Chairmen Rave

Retaliation Richard Rohmer Toronto: PaperJacks, 1983 298 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new bo...

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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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