The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 May 2017

The Dusty Bookcase at 1000

Last Tuesday's post marked the one thousandth since this blog began. I saw it coming, took my eye off the ball, and didn't notic...

23 May 2017

The Critical Age: Thoughts on a Film I'll Never See

Motion Picture News , 1 September 1923 In the opening scene of The Patriot , the 1998 motion picture adaptation of William C. Heine...

22 May 2017

More Victoria Day Disaster Verse

The Toronto Daily Mail 25 May 1881 John Wilson Bengough's poem on the wreck of the Victoria on Victoria Day, 1881, off the banks ...

14 May 2017

A Novel My Mother Read

Glengarry School Days: A Story of the Early Days in Glengarry Ralph Connor [pseud. Rev. Charles W. Gordon] Toronto: Westminster,...

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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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