The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 August 2014

The Long November in Late August

"Mysterious" is the word I used when first describing James Benson Nablo . This was four years ago. I'd just finished The...

25 August 2014

An Amazon Customer Review is Reconsidered

The Loved and the Lost Morley Callaghan Toronto: Macmillan, 1951 Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Ret...

23 August 2014

The Angels of Mons at 100

The Angels of Mons, R. Crowhurst, c. 1920 This day marks the centenary of perhaps the most extraordinary event in the Great War. The ...

18 August 2014

The Return of the Amazon Customer Review

Okay, so they never went away – but they did from this blog. I had a grand old time a few years back tearing strips off homophobes , 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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