The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 January 2015

Fin

It was six years ago yesterday that I began this exploration of the suppressed, ignored and forgotten in Canadian literature. Brian Moor...

22 January 2015

Brian Moore: The Last of a Paperback Writer

Murder in Majorca Michael Bryan [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Dell, 1957 158 pages This review now appears, revised and rewr...

19 January 2015

Max Braithwaite's True First

We Live in Ontario Max Braithwaite and R.S. Lambert [Agincourt, ON]: Book Society of Canada, 1957 Yes, we do! In fact, we arrived se...

16 January 2015

Harlequin's Filthiest Title

The Feathered Shaft Jane Arbor Toronto: Harlequin, 1970 "For various reasons, Nicola was having to masquerade as the sister of K...

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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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