The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 August 2015

Langevin's Masterpiece; McClelland's Disappointment

Orphan Street [ Une Chaîne dans le parc ] André Langevin [trans., Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 287 pages ...

25 August 2015

Toronto, Life, the Subliminal Seduction of the Innocent and a Morley Callaghan Mystery

Toronto Life, vol. 4, no. 7 (7 June 1970) There are jokes to be made about Toronto Life having to travel two hours outside the city ...

21 August 2015

The Neverending Story without a Name

A follow-up to Monday's very long post on The Story without a Name . Was it the longest? I can't be sure. This one will be shor...

17 August 2015

Jazz Age Death Ray, Baby!

The Story without a Name Arthur Stringer and Russell Holman New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924 The story without a name is not nea...

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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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