The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 December 2020

Just like a paperback novel...

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Released fifty years ago this month. Always chokes me up. If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a...
12 November 2020

What to Do? What to Do?

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The New Front Line Hubert Evans Toronto: Macmillan, 1927 291 pages Hugh Henderson has returned from the Great War, but not to his Ontario ho...
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11 November 2020

Remembrance Day

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Verse from the 1923 edition of Robert Stead's  The Empire Builders . HE SLEEPS IN FLANDERS                         He sleeps in F...
31 October 2020

An Unholy Harlequin Halloween

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This is the twelfth Dusty Bookcase Harlequin Halloween post. You know the drill by now: I share an old, odd, unsettling cover from the roman...
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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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