The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 June 2019

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Tiresome Love

The Side of the Angels Basil King London: Methuen, 1917 316 pages Thorley Masterman is another of Basil King's good young men. ...

24 June 2019

"Hommage" pour la Fête

Verse for la Fête by nineteenth-century hipster Paul de Malijay from his Saint Jean-Baptiste: L'évangile et le Canada . A "So...

12 June 2019

The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry

The Black Donnellys Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 158 pages Oh you who hail from Ontario Know the tale of the Donnellys...

08 June 2019

New Bookcases (not yet dusty)

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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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