The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 April 2018

Further Along The Lane That Had No Turning

The Lane That Had No Turning and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac; Together with Certain 'Parables of Provin...

23 April 2018

Amazon Customer Review: NHL Playoffs Edition

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18 April 2018

In 1977, I Hope I Go to Heaven

The Box Garden Carol Shields Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977 213 pages In 1977, I finished Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar ...

12 April 2018

Dorothy Dumbrille is Accepted By the Communists

All This Difference Dorothy Dumbrille Toronto: Progress, 1945 208 pages Progress Books, publishing arm of the Communist Party ...

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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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