The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 August 2019

Domestic Suspense in Small Town Ontario

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M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty Frances Shelley Wees New York: Doubleday, 1954 222 pages M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty  begins after a mo...
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19 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part III: The Squeaking Wheel

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Final words on  A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...
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18 August 2019

Nelson Ball (1942 - 2019)

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Thoughts this weekend have been with Nelson Ball, who died this past Friday. I first encountered Nelson as a poet, and later as a bookse...
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12 August 2019

Bach to the Future, Part II: Le Dernier Voyage

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Le dernier voyage: Un roman de la Gaspésie       [ A Voice is Calling ] Eric C. Morris [trans. Martine Hébert-Duguay] Montreal: Chant...
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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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