The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 December 2014

Dale's Dumb Luck; or, A Mountie Messes Up

Dale of the Mounted: Atlantic Assignment Joe Holliday Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1956 First off, I should make it clear that the book I ...

25 December 2014

Christmas Verse by Master of All Poets James Gay

For the day, Victorian verse from Canada's Poet by James Gay, self-proclaimed Master of All Poets and Poet Laureate of Canada , of...

24 December 2014

Miss Machar's 'The Call of Christmas - 1914'

The title poem from Agnes Maule Machar's "The Call of Christmas – 1914". What can be said about this scarce chapbook...

22 December 2014

Comfort in Cans

Vancouver Aquarium Seafood Recipes Ainley Jackson Vancouver: Gordon Soules, 1977 No living creature from the aquarium was killed in...

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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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