The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 December 2017

Bliss Carman's New Year's Rockin' Eve

NEW YEAR'S EVE The air is pulsing as with crowding wings. Migrant Ideals and valiant-hearted Dreams, ...

30 December 2017

My Favourite Read of 2017?

Not Wives and Lovers , the best novel. Not Frustration , the worst. Not Dan Hill's self-flagellating Comeback , the strangest. No, ...

27 December 2017

A Scarytale of Old York

The Gerrard Street Mystery John Charles Dent Constance Bay: Three Bats, 2017 32 pages A Christmas gift read on Christmas Day,...

25 December 2017

Great War Christmas Verse from a Century Past

Lens, France 25 December 1917 A poem by Arthur Stringer from the December 1917 issue of Maclean's. Christmas Bells in War Time...

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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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