The Dusty Bookcase

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

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14 September 2020

The Atomic Dale; or, The Mounties Mess Up?

Dale of the Mounted: Atomic Plot Joe Holliday Toronto: Allen, [1959] 158 pages The ninth in the twelve-volume Dale of the Mounted s...

12 September 2020

A Tom Ardies Cover Cavalcade

Pandemic Tom Ardies New York: Doubleday, 1973 A follow-up to my most recent CNQ review . In Tom Ardies' first novel, Their Man in the W...

01 September 2020

A Red in the White House?

Their Man in the White House Tom Ardies Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 198 pages One of the wealthiest men in the Uni...

21 August 2020

In Search of Margerie Scott

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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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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