The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 November 2019

I've been to Harlequin: Young Under the Influence

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Heart of Gold Marjorie Moore Toronto: Harlequin, 1967 Related posts: Songs Suggested by John Wesley White Arthur Stringer Under ...
12 November 2019

Three Little Women and One Big Spoiler

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Frederick Niven wrote  The Flying Years . I learned this as a teenager through a list of New Canadian Library titles printed in a copy o...
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11 November 2019

Remembrance Day

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Verse by Edna Jaques written the year after the Armistice. IN FLANDERS NOW              We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead...
07 November 2019

A Dedication Born of Tragedy

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Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...
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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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