The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 November 2018

A Curious Romance about a Closeted, Corseted, Petticoated Poet and His Masculine Twin Sister

Maid-At-Arms Enid Cushing [and Andre Norton] New York: Fawcett, 1981 221 pages Twins Lady Jennifer and Lord Jonathan Welland are al...

31 October 2018

No, Harlequin Halloween Horror Will Never End!

A Killer is Loose Among Us Robert Terrall Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 Related posts: A Harlequin Halloween Another Harlequin H...

30 October 2018

Amazon Customer Reviews: Cancel, Cancel, Cancel

A Stranger in My Grave Margaret Millar New York: Random House, 1960 How Like an Angel Margaret Millar New York: Random House...

25 October 2018

A Conceited, Entirely Likeable Private Detective

The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Robert Barr Harpenden, Herts: Gaslight Crime, 2015 303 pages Eugène Valmont is Robert Barr's mos...

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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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