The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 June 2015

Robert Stead's Century-Old Poem of the Great War

A poem of the twelfth month of the Great War from the revised 1923 edition of Robert Stead's The Empire Builders . Rel...

24 June 2015

La Fête: Il y'a 100 ans

For the day, verse from Octave Crémazie, father of Quebec poetry and – it needs be said – bookseller . "Canadien-française...

15 June 2015

A Man's Struggle with Humiliation

Night of the Horns/Cry Wolfram Douglas Sanderson Eureka, CA: Stark House, 2015 Shame he isn't around to see it. The y...

10 June 2015

A Rant on Saul Bellow's 100th Birthday

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of Saul Bellow's birth. Take my word for it. The Canadian Encyclopedia , The Oxfo...

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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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