The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 June 2020

Arthur Mayse, His Wife, and The Beachcombers

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Saturday Evening Post , 11 May 1946 My third post on Arthur Mayse in under two weeks. Why not? Shining a light on neglected writers...
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24 June 2020

Acerbic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Verse

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On this  Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste , thirty-eight forgotten lines of nineteenth-century verse by S. Frances Harrison. Am I wrong in...
23 June 2020

Arthur Mayse: The Gift of His Extraordinary Life

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  At ten, The Beachcombers  consumed a steady portion of my week – one half-hour each Sunday evening – and yet Arthur Mayse's name m...
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21 June 2020

A Father's Love on Father's Day

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A favourite purchase of last year,  and a cherished volume for all time, my copy of Anne Hebert's 1942 debut, Les songes en équilibr...
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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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