The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 November 2015

Ricochet Prefers Blondes

The postman brings the third Ricochet Book in as many months. As Series Editor, I couldn't be more proud. One of the greatest Canadi...

18 November 2015

A Rival for Margaret Millar?

The Keys of My Prison Frances Shelley Wees London: Jenkins, 1956 Is The Keys of My Prison typical Frances Shelley Wees? If so, she...

12 November 2015

Hunting the Hun by the Banks of the Niagara

Young Canada Boys with the S.O.S. on the Frontier Harold C. Lowry [sic] Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1918 A boys' adventure story from...

11 November 2015

Remembrance Day

William Horace Humphreys Machine Gun Corps After the Armistice My grandfather… not forgotten. And remembering his son-in-law, m...

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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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