The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 August 2020

In Search of Margerie Scott

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The Windsor Daily Star , 10 April 1951 Following  last week's review of Margerie Scott's The Darling Illusion . Until this y...
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14 August 2020

They Fell in Love With the Actress

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The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 246 pages Olivia Thompson's dead body lies in a slowly growing p...
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07 August 2020

What's This?

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I purchased Robertson Davies'  What's Bred in the Bone  upon publication, the exchange taking place in 1985 at the old Coles b...
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28 July 2020

An Obstinate Virgin Turns Old-Fashioned Girl

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The Obstinate Virgin Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston [1934] 314 pages In Essentially Canadian , his 19...
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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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