The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 July 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: G is for Gotlieb

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

23 July 2018

The Promise of a Man, a Mother in So Much Pain

Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...

16 July 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: F is for Fulford

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

13 July 2018

Cheering Mrs Moodie's Misfortune

Related posts: Susanna Moodie's Bloomers Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review Mu...

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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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