The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 March 2018

An Absentminded Amazon Customer is Confused; Timothy Findley Pays the Price

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

19 March 2018

Mary Astor, Margaret Millar, and Celuloid Hell

At the end of my review of Margaret Millar's Rose's Last Summer , I put it that the title character, Rose French, had seen her H...

12 March 2018

A Margaret Millar Mystery Spoiled

The Lively Corpse [ Rose's Last Summer ] Margaret Millar New York: Dell, [1956] 224 pages Margaret Millar's The Iron Gates...

09 March 2018

Reviewing W.E.D. Ross

Online mag Book Marks has a new feature, "Secrets of the Book Critic," which takes the form of interviews with American ...

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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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