The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 March 2019

'When April Comes!' by Virna Sheard

In anticipation! Time to prepare your Easter bonnets! The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913

25 March 2019

Canada Reads: No Country for Old Books

For those who just can't wait, the essay on Canada Reads I wrote for next month's Canadian Notes & Queries has just been...

19 March 2019

Nature as the Devil's Playground

The Ravine Kendal Young [pseud Phyllis Brett Young] London: W.H. Allen, 1962 208 pages Young Barbara Grey "saved for simply ag...

04 March 2019

Miss Fenwick's Good Old Hockey Match

More than a fortnight has passed since my last post, but I haven't been lazy. It's been a hectic time, centred around our third ...

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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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