The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 May 2019

Gone Fishin' (without Frank and Joe Hardy)

The Phantom Freighter Franklin W. Dixon [pseud. Amy McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1958] 216 pages I think I read a...

13 May 2019

Grant Allen's Breezy Read

An Army Doctor's Romance Grant Allen London: Raphall Tuck & Sons, [1893] 113 pages The publisher lowers expectations with ...

06 May 2019

A Brief Review of a Book Bought in Error

Exit Barney McGee Claire Mackay Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic-TAB, 1979 146 pages We've all been there. It's the dying minu...

22 April 2019

Millar's Experiment in Springtime in Springtime

Experiment in Springtime Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 Margaret Millar...

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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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