The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 June 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: E is for Eaton

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

24 June 2018

Root Beer for a Sober Fête de la St-Jean Baptiste

The visage of Louis-Joseph-Paul-Napoléon Bruchési, Italian-Canadian Archbishop of Montreal, dominates the first page of this 1898 Souve...

18 June 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: D is for Daniells

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

12 June 2018

Of Whips, Veins, and a Bottomless Pool of Warmth

Arctic Rendez-vous Keith Edgar Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1949 192 pages I've finally finished my review of Arctic Re...

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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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