The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 January 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in August

Today marks the ninth anniversary of The Dusty Bookcase, a good day to recognize what the sharp-eyed have already spotted. This coming A...

16 January 2017

A Quiet, Mildly Depressing Depression-Era Debut

John Irene Baird Philadelphia/Toronto: Lippincott, 1937 A first novel, the discovery that this copy is a fourth impression surprised...

09 January 2017

Old Lady Harlequins: The Wicked, the Suicidal, the Murdered, the Petticoated, and the Headless

The Wicked Lady Skelton Magellan King-Hill 1949 Die With Me, Lady Ronald Cocking 1953 Lady - Here's Your Wreath Raymond Ma...

02 January 2017

The Trudeau Papers: Bang!

The Trudeau Papers Ian Adams Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fa...

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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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