The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 February 2018

Not to Be Confused with Bust Planet

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries has arrived, bringing with it my long promised review of W.E.D. Ross's Lust Plane...

19 February 2018

Wither the Nurse Novel?

Much of this past weekend was spent reading Backstage Nurse , a W.E.D. Ross novel published in 1963 under his "Judith Rossiter...

15 February 2018

Amazon Customer Hates Hagar More Than Hitler

cliquez pour agrandir Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review ...

14 February 2018

A Weird and Tense Harlequin Valentine

Death About Face Frank Kane Toronto: Harlequin, 1951 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Another Harlequin Valentine ...

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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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