The Dusty Bookcase

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

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24 November 2018

Amazon Customer: Not Death Wish or Straw Dogs

( cliquez pour agrandir ) Related posts: Where is Catherine Deneuve? Six Exits to Shrewsdale Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh...

19 November 2018

The Adventures of a Globe-Trotting Girton Girl

Miss Cayley's Adventures Grant Allen Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016 230 pages Men come off particularly poorly in this novel. T...

18 November 2018

James Montgomery Flagg Does Reverend King

On this Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, an addendum to last week's post concerning Rev Basil King's The Empty Sack . ...

14 November 2018

The Great Canadian Post-Great War Novel?

The Empty Sack Basil King New York: Harper, 1921 446 pages "We're all different. Life as we used to live it begins to seem...

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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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