The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 February 2016

Familiarity Breeds Content

The Measure of a Man: A Tale of the Big Woods Norman Duncan New York: Revell, 1911 The Measure of a Man is a novel I thought I...

17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...

14 February 2016

C'mon, It's Harlequin Valentine Time

Crime on My Hands Carl G. Hodges Toronto Harlequin, 1952 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Another Harlequin Valenti...

08 February 2016

A Sunny Metropolis for Misogynists

Dirty City Michael Young Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 If you cannot find the name of Dirty City on the map of the United States...

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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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