The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 July 2015

Hugh Garner: Article Lost, Article Found

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Toronto: Ryerson, 1968 Markhan, ON: PaperJacks, 1983 Toronto: Dundurn, 2011 A Bo...

15 July 2015

The Man Who Hated Toronto

Present Reckoning Hugh Garner Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1951 Tom Neelton has arrived too late for the party, but he doesn't...

13 July 2015

John Buell Meets Ross Macdonald

The Pyx John Buell New York: Crest, 1960 De zaak Ferguson [ The Ferguson Affair ] John Ross Macdonald [pseud. Kenneth Millar] Ro...

03 July 2015

Boum!

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe [Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe] Roger Lemelin [trans. Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984 O...

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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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